landing --surely he trusts his wings implicitly--and with good reason. He next carried the lizard to the Scamell house and spent several minutes tapping with it on their dining room windows. (It was noted that he selected appropriate rooms at both places). He had three more interested spectators here. But before this I should have recorded his visit to the running-board and fenders of an automobile in front of the Scamell's where he again wagged his tail in the new gesture. He wandered about in the field for a time and then returned to the motor-car where two of us were standing. He appeared to be looking for a customer. Next down the sidewalk a hundred feet and up a bare tree, cooing; then across the street to the lot west of this place. There I joined him and sat in the grass. He walked up to me with the lizard and sang "in my face". By this time I had about decided--it was now one and one half hours since he was first seen with his prey--that the lizard was being carried about as an offering to a prospective mate and not because he was not hungry. As a crude sort of test I offered him a worm, with the result that he promptly ate the lizard and then took the worm, following with several more, showing probably that he was hungry and lending a certain amount of support to the theory above. The lizard was carried continuously for an observed period of one hour and thirty two minutes. How much longer is not known. While on the roof his song was repeated at the rate of three to four times per minute, and was not interfered with by the presence of the rep- tile in his bill. March 16th. Brownie appears to direct his early morning song toward the Sampson thrasher, going part way (about 250 yards from the nest) toward the Sampson place, perching in the top of a pine at the Edwardes' or in a deodar at the Scamell's. There he sings for an hour or more, loudly and persistently, without mimicry. He seems