Rhody also has sung very little today, although he spent several hours continuously at the mirror and the window sash. The placing of the last has added a new complication for him to unravel. It adjoins the mirror, is at right angles to it and is outside the cage leaning against the wire. This combination now gives Rhody another phantom road-runner in addition to the first one, so he goes from mirror to sash, back and forth, tapping at each. He rests by going to look at the magpies, panting with open bill. March 22nd. I did not hear B singing in the early morning, though of course, this does not mean that he did not. R, however, did. At 9:30 A.M. both B and N were in the nest side by side giving the eggs a double dose of heat. It did not appear to be merely an incident of changing shift, as both birds were motionless and I watched them for several minutes. At 10 only one was incubating. This is the morning on which the first egg should hatch, and one wonders if the "double" incubation has any significance. The rail was distinctly out of sorts; weak and wobbly looking, marked with loss of appetite and a tendency to doze, puffed up, with bill under one wing. (Not under the back feathers). He was put in a cage and brought indoors, the cage covered and an electric light placed underneath it. Now I wonder if the repeated bathing above recorded was not a symptom of illness after all. I did not examine the thrasher nest until about 2 P.M., at which time B was coming on duty. There was one chick (and two eggs). B appeared to look with pride down into the nest, prodded about a little, then "rubbed" himself down into it thoroughly, facing me. I offered him a worm, which he reached for eagerly as soon as he saw it, eating it himself. Two more worms were similarly treated. Evi- dently it is too soon to feed the youngster. Certainly B did not give him any food by regurgitation, either.