some excitement, though no evident animosity--I had expected to be pecked. The youngsters snapped their beaks, buzzed and, for the first time, emitted a rhythmical rather adult sound not easily described, but somewhat like Rhody's hroo. From the activity of the larger bird it seemed unlikely that it could be induced to stay in the nest very long, if at all, and as Rhody did not seem to be much disturbed by our interference and the neighborhood is over-run with cats, boys and workingmen, it was decided to bring the chicks here. R watched us put them into the case of the camera tripod without comment. When they were put into the car at the base of the high bank below the nest. Rhody appeared on a stump at the top, repeated his cooing song several times as if in farewell. (The first time it has been heard for many weeks). He then repeated his courting gesture of clapping his wings together over his back and disappeared. This shook my resolution, but I car- ried on. On getting home the smaller bird readily accepted food from hand, but the one that had been fed so generously at the nest would only snap its beak, though reaching toward the food. The excrement of both has changed from predominatingly white to mostly black. (The smaller excreted while we had it on the ground. When Rhody found it he carried it off and dropped it about 20 feet away. It was adult in form and consistency.) The larger excreted a black, fluid mass while in the car, my attention being called to the act by the sudden arising of a very foul odor permeating everything, notwithstanding the fact that the car was open and well ventilated. To distinguish the two birds, and in recognition of their rep- tilian appearance, they will tentatively divide the name Archaeo- pterix between them. The big one, probably the first born, is Arky, which will probably become Archie, and the small one: Terry. A is the more assertive at present; T the more gentle. My guess is that it is the female. The skin back of their eyes is still "black" with slightly bluish cast near the eye and yellowish at rear.