Another fright for Archie. Rhody and Terry to- gather and at- tack A A released. A leaves in fear. Terry returns voluntarily to cage. Searches for A there. T calls for twigs. Gtts one outside of cage and carries to nest. D Terry in here. Terry in living room. Terry admires view from my shoulder. Rhody courts T with lizard. T here again. The courting. him there and returned to the cage to find that two little girls (one with a red sweater!) had been at the cage. Naturally Archie was paralyzed and hidden. About 9 A.M. Rhody and Terry came to the cage together, Terry at once making a strenuous effort to get at Archie, this time scrapping his own bill on the wires from the outside causing the blood to flow. Rhody joined actively, throwing poor Archie into another panic. I decide to let him loose when the field was clear of the two other birds. This occurred soon. He ran and flew rapid- ly to the west. T and R seemed to be in amicable relationship. I went to observe Archie's progress. He went under the fence into the western lot. On my way back a whine from the bushes north of the house announced Terry, who followed back to the cage, entering it freely and making a thorough, detailed search inside for Archie. He did not know of course where Archie was. Rhody came and watched from the outside, then departed in the direction of his nest. Terry went to his and whined for more twigs. He was not obliged, so commenced shaping it. He came out, flew vertically to the roof of the cage (8 ft.) and wandered about there. He found a twig which Rhody had taken from my hand yesterday and abandoned there. He looked for places to put it, and also for a way to get into the cage from the roof. He finally came down with it saying coot, coot...... as he passed me in the doorway where I squatted. He climbed up my back and tickled the back of my neck with the twig. I thought he was going to build a nest on me! Finally he went up to date the most definite indication, perhaps, of the serious- ness of his nesting intentions. He called for more. I gave him the lining of the jays' nest (These jays are proving useful after all). I left him there working. I can make up numerous plausible combinations respecting the sexes of these birds. (Well I'll be hanged! Here is Terry under this table saying coot, coot. 10:20. I had nothing to do with it. 10:21, here's Rhody also. 10:25; T is puck, pucking in the hall. Terry has never been anywhere near here before and, from, the cage, it is a long, wandering route with trees and shrubbery and the rest of the house itself intervening). I shall have to drop the opening theme of this paragraph, because of events. x x x x 12:20 P.M. Terry went into the living room and called. I went there at 10:30. He was sitting on the back of a chair placidly looking out of the bay window at the west end.( About 60 feet from here). When I joined him he jumped to my shoulder and, for 15 minutes, sat there looking out of the window and occasion- ally hrooing softly, very tame and gentle. We went out the front door at 10:55 to the lower garden. Rhody was seen 100 feet away waving his tail, with a lizard. He went to the cage, I followed. Soon Terry came. Then began definite courtship, Rhody approaching T, T retreating (Well, I'll be hanged again--a loud boo outside and Terry trots in. He spoils the continuity of my yarn--I left him in the cage--but I'll come to that if he gives me a chance. He is now hrooing, cooting, etc at my feet. I believe he is re- really attached to me and that, on both occasions, he trailed me. He is fascinated with his liberty and the new world). To continue: ....T retreating coyly and raising his tail, Rhody springing into the air and landing just where Terry had been the moment before. They kept this up for several minutes, then Rhody went up to the observatory roof and Terry to his nest in the cage. After a half hour Rhody came down still with the lizard, Terry came out. There was a short repetition, then R went over the fence toward his nest, Terry back to his. Later, with T out again, R's tactics seemed to be to induce T to come to the nest. T appeared willing, but