The buzz and buzz-pop. Meaning(?). Reaction to handling. The snarl. Vocal recognition of friends. Speculation in talk. thropomorph- ism (?). and distinctly separated from each other in time. This buzz(and the buzz-pop)is made with spread and quivering wings while the young- while ster is running toward me, low to the ground and circling about my occasionally feet pecking at them impatiently as if wanting some kind of action on my part. Off-hand one would say that it is clearly a call for food. Perhaps it is sometimes; certainly it is not always. I think it seldom is, and that it is really a demand for attention, for if the bird then flies up to my shoulder as it frequently does, the buzz ceases instantly and is followed by little animal sounds perhaps expressive of affection or contentment. Or if I reach down and pick it up bodily it may subsideat once with the same gentle sounds or, in marked contrast, snarl nastily like a cat, struggle to get free and either run off or else jump up on me and settle down contentedly immediately notwithstanding the explosion of temperament at the instant it was caught. (It makes this same angry snarl when stepped on by its brother--or sister?). This snarl may be described as a disagreeable, nasal raowh or waowh, the a being short. On hearing it, the cause of it might reasonably expect to have a fight on his hands, yet in three seconds or less the bird may be sitting on his shoulder placidly preening. When flying up to a perch these birds are silent; yet when alighting on a human being they always announce their coming and arrival vocally by pleasant sounds. In other words: the inanimate object is not class ed as something to be communicated with, but these the human friend is. It appears to me,then, that the sounds are perhaps nothing specific and intended to convey some message, perhaps not consciously, but at least they indicate some recognition on the part of the bird of a friendly fellow creature possessing some measure of understanding and capable of responsive action. (I suppose this point of view represents naive anthropomorphism and that all this is readily explained by a simple, elementary pattern which the bird is constrain