859 B returns. Nova calls. B goes to nest to quiet nerves! Continues to disregard N. B works a little. However, he was back to me in a minute or two, first assuring himself that the pigeons had gone "entirely". Nova now began calling: queelick, quilk........... from the old oak, B ignoring her. Whether this reminded him of family matters, or he was stimulated by the worms (as suspected on numerous former occasions) or he decided to quiet his shattered nerves by a rest, he retired to the nest and lay there quietly for a few minutes. Nova meanwhile changed her call to hrik, hrik-hrik (or whatever it is) with variations, but B remained silent. He then began to do a little work inside the nest and finally came down to dig and forage, absolutely ignoring Nova's continued calls. At 11:50, as I passed the dorm, B was just going up to the nest again through the glass house, carrying nothing in his bill. Nova was scrapping from the old oak. R again avoids a visitor. About 1:30 I tried various tactics to induce Rhody to show him- self to another visitor who was a stranger to him; but Rhody would have nothing to do with him and disappeared in the shrubbery in the garden. When the visitor had gone, I searched for R and found him sitting calmly up in a small pine tree around which I had been hunting for him. He was not in the least alarmed, came down promptly and sat on the edge of the pool near me for a half an hour looking at the fish and watching the other birds. He made a circuit of the oval lawn and through the surrounding shrubbery which was full of birds; but he did not offer to molest him and none complained of his presence--not even the wren-tits and spotted towhees. Dec.20th. A foggy morning; but this did not keep B from singing and in- ducing Nova to come to him through the fog. When Rhody came to the cage for meat, he found me inside the outer compartment feeding the rail and partially blocking his way to the meat. He did not have quite enough courage to squeeze by me,