She managed to climb up a few inches to the mud-sill on which the frame work of the cage is mounted and to which the wire mesh is stapled, holding one by thrusting her bill through the hexagonal mesh. She fell off, recovered, tried to fly to the perch; could not; climbed the wire by inserting bill through mesh as aid, making plaintive sounds and fluttering. When she reached level of perch and was displayed flat against the wire, Oof tried to mount her but was shaken off and she fell to earth and seemed to be dying. She recovered partially, reclimbed the wire and got on the perch, swaying dizzily, and appearing bewildered and stupid, nict. membs. closed for long periods of time. She swayed and fell off, landing on her back in the top of a bush; was unable to right herself and slid off; Ooffmuch excited and noisy but not bothering her. Again she climbed the wire to the height of the perch, but was unable to transfer to it and clung there motionless. I took her off the wire without resistance and held her in my hands; she lay quiet and seemed to enjoy the warmth. Oof, however, did not like this and screamed loudly the moment I picked her up. I put her in the nest; she screamed and flew to a perch. Oof was frightfully angry at me, followed me about, yelling at me twice as loud as before and seemed to contemplate attacking me, concentrating his attention on me alone, while Kack swayed on the perch turning her head slowly with eyes open but dull, by all appearances a bewildered and moribund bird. I had to leave, but returned in about three quarters of an hour with Dr. Reynolds, to whom I had described the action. She appeared to be normal, moving about freely. April 29th. Magpies. About 9 A.M. everything appeared normal in the magpie cage and more work had been done on the nest since above incident. Rhody home. Rhody was home again and inspected the magpies judicially. this part of B and young. B came to me followed by his satellite who still uses the