particular specimen is infested. I watched him from about 15 feet away and could not see that he was eating anything else. His song was about as loud as B's, soft and warbling for the most part, but with a few harsher notes. I got the impression very strongly that he was trying to imitate B. When I shifted my position slight- ly, there was Rhody, also sitting in a ceanothus, about 10 feet from the jay and about 8 feet from the spot I had just left. I had no inkling of his presence--in fact had just finished what I had thought to be a thorough search for him. An hour or so before I had nearly stepped on him. He is the most "invisible" bird when in plain sight of any of the local population. He was facing the two other birds and apparently listening. I hoped he would make it a trio, but he remained silent. When the jay left, Rhody came down and walked toward B, who was on the ground all of this time, but with no evident ulterior motive. B continued his song and merely shifted about 3 feet out of R's path. R went on by down the driveway headed for the street, but 5 minutes afterwards I nearly stepped on him again up in the patio, a place where he "never" goes. (When I come upon him unexpectedly in this way he usually runs off only about 2 or 3 feet and stops 5 or 6 feet from me). He seemed very curious about his surroundings, looking up at the walls of the house and the growing things in the garden . hibiscus, pleroma, fuchsia (Azaleas and poinsettia in bloom--the latter about 14 feet high). (This is not really a patio but an upper level of the garden entirely protected from the north by the house and partially from the east and the west, also by the house; being open on the entire south side. Popularly, this arrangement is supposed to protect tender plants from frost injury; but as a matter of fact (though there has been no evidence of it here) the effect is just the opposite, as Gilbert White discovered about 150 years ago. Possibly it pro- motes earlier bloom, but it should be noted that the only azalea