967 r. R. telephones About 8:30 A.M. Dr. Reynolds telephoned that I should be pre- Rody on way here. pared to see Rhody shortly, as that bird had just gone down his driveway after having climbed over the stile crossing the fence that runs along the top of the bluff that bounds his property on the east overlooking Dimond canyon. Reynolds suspected that this might prove to be the route followed by Rhody between the nest and this place. R arrives. About 8:40 Rhody was here drinking and, when offered meat, took it from hand, greeting me with a soft whine. I kept in touch with him in order to observe what his return route to the nest might be. The Reynolds place is in direct line between the nest and here. Return route to nest. Observations on Rhody from 8:40 to 10:45. Up to the time he decided to go back to the nest (at 10:30) he spent most of the time in preening, taking worms from hand and catch- ing them expertly when tossed to him at distances of ten feet down to two; sunning himself and then cooling off in the shade. (Temp. 76); scraping leaves away with his bill looking for worms that he thought I should have tossed (but did not); dusting; visiting the cage for meat but ignoring the magpies; chasing a yellow bellied racer. but not attacking it or trying really to catch it. allowing it to proceed unmolested after it had gone through the wire fence. He was not interested enough to follow it further. After this, as Chases towhee he was filled with food, he became frolicsome and chased a brown towhee that was trying to lead him away from the vicinity of her nest, but not trying to catch her, since whenever she stopped, so did he and waited for her to move on again. This lead him to a broom bush where he cooled off for 5 or 10 minutes and then suddenly took off in flight curving expertly about through the trees, landing in the street below headed in exactly the opposite direction of his initial course and toward the south east. This put him in line for the nest. I went with him, sometimes leading. His general direct Eats and loafs. Chases racer. Cools off. A competent flight. Off for the nest.