bird showed any fear reaction, but if I had gone inside with it, doubtless they would have been frightened as they are of all strange objects introduced into their immediate presence uncere moniously. A and T's first Archie was in cage B (p.1003) under cover, but pretty wet as to rain. R comes. I gave him meal-worms there and Rhody appeared from nowhere to get his share handed through the wire mesh. He was fairly dry, but with spiky wet tail. His meat had already been washed white in the rain and he did not take it after inspecting it. (These birds appear to have some color sense and base action upon it). (?) R refuses wet "white" meat. Archie learns quickly where meal worms are. Archie saw what was going on, divined the real source of the worm supply, jumped upon my knee and helped himself from the box direct, although the worms were concealed in the bran. This is only the second time that he has seen inside the box, so On the first occasion he must have learned that it contained worms from personal experience. On the second occasion, as stated, he went direct to worm headquarters on his own initiative. After the worms were gone, he remained on my knee wringing out his feathers and oiling himself. A and T compared. It appears that Archie was slower in taking the necessary steps to avoid a wetting than Terry. Terry, however, has not yet apparently formed the same associations with the worm box, though he has had the same opportunities. R refuses same meat in situ, but accepts it from me. About noon Rhody came again and looked at the "white" meat, turned from it and began searching for sundried scraps which he ate, then went away. I got the meat which he had just refused, squeezed it reasonably dry so that it regained some of its original color, looked Rhody up, called his attention to the "new" meat and he came and took it readily enough, gulping it down by my side instead of running off with it as he usually does. The slight change in color probably had little if anything to do with his changed attitude to- ward the meat; the determining factor probably being his association of me with acceptable food.