with the camera. The first time, when she had no camera and he was sitting within reach in a tree, he did not object to her standing almost beneath him with me. I induced him to leave the tree and thereafter, although he would still allow me to walk up to him as before, he would make off as soon as Miss Dougan came into view. The attempt had to be abandoned. Feb. 9th. B singing and working intermittently at the nest. Rhody was first seen sitting 12 feet from B's nest, facing it, but committing no overt acts. Later he cut foolish capers about striking the bushes, xmaking heroic poses, repelling imaginary enemies and stirring things up generally. This annoyed the spotted towhees and wren-tits, but Brownie, who was now sunning himself on one of the low bushes about which Rhody cavorted, took it all phlegmatic- ally. The thought suggests itself that the purpose back of these evolutions is to flush the small birds and thus cause them to reveal the locations of their nests. During pauses he always looks up into the bushes and frequently darts off in the direction from which bird sounds are heard, though never attacking the birds themselves. On this occasion, after cooling down, Rhody climbed the dormi- tory tree. I went and stood under it. After sitting quietly in one spot for a few minutes during which he kept turning his head to look all about the inside of the tree, he climbed up to nest 9 (the roofed-over nest in which B sleeps at night). He went up and sat on it looking down into it and touching it inside with his bill. He examined the roof, then sat in the nest, as if to see how it felt. He looked at the roof overhead and around at the surroundings, shifted slightly once or twice and even reached out to move some of the growing twigs that interfered with his comfort. It was too tight a fit every place, but his actions were such as to give