a feint at the rail through the wire screen, left the cage to re- turn in a few moments and peck at his reflection. At this point visitors arrived (1 P.M.) and he bolted. Feb,18th. The morning opened with song by B. About 8:30 Rhody again mounted to the roof of the house and sang his, lonesome, mournful lay. Returning from town about 10 A.M., R was seen out in the open field on a prominent point looking off over the country. I went to him and gave him meat. He crouched low to the ground as a sharp-shin or Cooper hawk passed overhead at a considerable height. I left him and watched from a distance. He sauntered slowly back to this place, requiring perhaps 10 minutes to cover 150 yards, and stopping every few feet to look about. As he walked up the driveway he watched the bank on his right, apparently for insects, etc., although he passed one large one after looking at it with interest. He followed the curve around to the dormitory tree where Brownie was sitting in his No. 9 nest (the one he occupies at night) singing. (Incidentally B stayed there about 15 minutes). R did not go up the tree but sauntered off to the lath house, flew up to the roof (He can fly upward) strolled aimlessly about there for a few minutes, then, apropos of nothing that I could see, emitted five or six rattling boos in rapid succession. Next he climbed the sparrow-hawk pine and called at irregular intervals from near the end of a horizontal limb about 30 feet from the ground for about 20 minutes, looking off in all directions. He sailed grand- ly down from here, frightening all the birds in the immediate vicinity, then wandered off in leisurely fashion, to the upper gard- en, where he drank and loafed (mostly lying down under a rhododen- dron) until about 1 o'clock, when he appeared to become hungry. and drifted away. I do not think that he had had anything to eat since