I fed him, though I occasionally lost sight of him for a few moments. His growing hunger was manifested by a growing interest in the cracks of the rocks about the lower pool. 2 P.M. (Temp. in shade in upper garden (patio) 67, with same thermometer in shade in orchard: 76). These two points are not more than 80 feet apart. The latter temperature causes Brownie and Nova to go about with open beaks and Rhody to seek the shade. Both kinds of birds find it necessary, however, when inactive, under these temperature conditions, to shift from sun to shade and vice versa as they get too hot in the sun and too cold in the shade--a characteristic effect often noted by human beings here-- especially newcomers. Feb.19th. Brownie opened the day as usual and sang repeatedly during the forenoon, using several phrases that I do not recall having heard before. Part of the time he seemed to be engaging in a contest with a thrasher a long way off to the south. Once there was a short burst of loud song in the same tree with him. (Nova?). The distant song kept up for a long time, so I went to investi- gate. The singer was located in the top of an oak, due south, in the garden of a house approximately a quarter of a mile away. The bird was not more than 30 or 40 feet from the house, yet when a very pleasant lady, as it proved, came out to pick flowers, it developed that she had never heard the bird at any time. By this time he had stopped. Rhody was silent and invisible during nearly all of the fore- oon and was first seen coming out of the shrubbery in the garden with a small bird in his mouth!. He allowed me to walk up to him and it proved to be a bush-tit. He removed a portion of the feath- ers and swallowed it whole. I doubt if he caught it alive, but the burden of proof is on him.