A friendly but tired and weak. I get water for him. Very thirsty. R not with him. Taken back to garden. A comes in here. Titmouse episode. A eats 3 titmouses given him. Jay kills T.M. I kill jay and rob its nest. Rhody refuses jay's eggs. A ditto. Terry rejects. A wanders away. R interested. A returned to cage. Preparation of cage. worms and was tame and friendly, but looked and acted tired and forlorn. As I sat beside him on the ground he showed that he is capable of feeding himself, as he found a snail, cracked its shell and ate the creature. His blows, however, lacked the old pep and his eyes were not alert and keen. His injury made him look strange. I doubted if he had had anything to drink, so returned to the house to get him water (in a bottle, with a glass to drink from). When he saw me approaching with the glass in hand, up the steep bank, he came at once and tried to drink from the empty glass before I could fill it, so thirsty was he! I filled it hurriedly and he drank and drank and drank. It must have felt good. (Rhody meanwhile was up in the garden; showing lack of interest in Archie—perhaps ever since they had been seen yesterday). I did not like to have him out there by him- self in his weakened condition, so took him in both hands (under some protest at first) back to the house and released him in the upper garden near this room. He was not frightened, but came in here and inspected everything—a new experience for him—then down to the lower garden where he preened thoroughly, thence to the orchard for a good rest. There Julio came and told me that something had thrown out nesting material from the plain-titmouse house and he thought a snake was inside. (This ties in with the roadrunner’s as will soon appear). Investigation showed the nest had in truth, been attacked, but the "snake" proved to be a parent bird inside that hissed when I opened the house. There were 8 naked youngsters, four of them crowded to one side and dying. Here is where it hooks up with Archie, for I took them to him, after repair ing the nest, and he ate three of them happily! Terry got the fourth. As I returned, a California Jay was seen sitting on the perch at the titmouse nest. It flew off with one youngster in its beak. I found it had taken 3 of the four remaining. I rigged up coarse wire fabric over the opening to protect the last chick from the jays. As soon as I reached the ground a jay was at the wire. I shot it and looked for its nest. It was found 50 feet away—four eggs. I took it without mercy. Rhody appearing, I called to him and offered him the eggs. He looked at them curiously, but would not touch them, though he accepted worms. Archie did not want them either. I took them, nest and all, to Terry in the cage. He was very curious about them, picked one out with difficulty, accidentally dropped it, breaking it. He sampled the contents, lost interest and went off to wipe his bill, having eaten nothing of it. Later it was inspected seven times by Rhody, who, however, never touched nest or eggs. The nest with the four eggs are left where they were in order to check up on Rhody further. Archie was now more lively with the four young birds under his belt, and wandered off the premises again, 200 yards to the south-west toward the canyon. Rhody displayed considerable inter- est in this proceeding and followed but did not establish con- tact, although he once flew beyond him, perhaps 100 yards. In a few minutes he came back through the long grass, up hill, running and jumping. He passed by Archie without stopping and came back here via the Seamells'. I believe he was actuated merely by curios- ity and had no intention of getting into close touch with Archie. We brought Archie back to the cage. Terry began to display slightly as soon as he saw him in Julio’s possession. Archie’s wound was dressed with bismuth formic iodide and vaseline cream. The lower portion of the former magpie cage was lined with burlap so that he could not injure his bill and a large sheet of celotex was placed so as to shut out all view of Terry. Before the latter was placed he could dimly see Terry, at times, through the burlap, and at once reacted unfavorably, but the celotex seems to have