his brood. When Rhody poses outside the cage he looks and acts very fierce, making charges at the nearest chick, but stopping short of the wire. They use me as a sort of fortress from which to make sallies in his direction. They retreat before his rushes and appear frightened at the moment, but make no sound and may fall to pulling buttons and buckles about my clothes. He seems much more excited than they, yet if I show him a worm through the wire he subsides at once and takes it. Hostilities are suspended all around when I pass out worms. It looks like play. R and eggs. This morning the quail eggs, meat and a dead white mouse were put outside the wire to give Rhody his choice. but he merely looked at them during intervals in his evolutions and would touch none of them. But when he went away, I looked him up in the garden and offered him the same mouse, which he took readily from hand and gulped down after having limbered it up by beating on the ground in his usual manner. July 20th. to 26th., incl. R refuses quail eggs still. Rhody refused the quail eggs for two more days; they were then given to the magpies who ate them greedily. His attitude toward and young. the young road-runners remained unchanged. R not singing. He was not heard to sing again during this period, but continue his frequent visits to the cage. Young indifferent The young birds are no more interested in him than in other to R. birds. it seems. now. Young disturbed by voices of children. They show exactly the same reaction to the voices of children in the distance as Rhody, becoming excited at once and running about the cage. In their case, it is certain that they have never had any disagreeable experiences connected with children. Tail feathers change position. I find that they can "shuffle" their two top, middle tail feathers, i.e.: either one may lie on top of the other entirely concealing it.