they discovered that their feet are useful for uncovering food and began scratching about with professional skill. On giving B's whistled bugle call this morning, B came promptly bringing Bb3 with him. Terry was given his turn at the only mouse caught so far this morning. (8 A.M.). Later he had about a third of a mouse and two or three helpings of the special food in the course of the day. Archie had a lizard, two thirds of a mouse and two or three helpings of the food mixture. They do not eat often. Meal worms and the beetles which they turn into interest the young birds considerably. They watch them closely, pick them up, but either do not know that they are good to eat, or else have not learned the back and forth shuffling motion of the head which will start them going in the right direction. They have had water in their cage from the first and have occasionally looked at it curiously and nibbled at the edge of the container. In doing this today Archie got a taste of the water and shortly after, drank in approved fashion. Terry then performed a similar experiment with the same result. Today was a day of much stretching and flapping of wings. The latter usually followed immediately after a preening operation and seemed to serve the purpose of blowing away the "dandruff", (though probably intended as exercise?) Nothing has been seen of Rhody or his wife for several days. June 16th. Archie and Terry were given several long runs in the shop yard today. At first, when tired, they returned directly to the cage and its nest. Archie ran about cockily, dusted just like Rhody, split himself down the back like Rhody to sun himself, and developed a peculiar bleating call, a long drawn out ma. (The a short as in cat). He used this and flapped his wings when he wanted to see