fully that the young birds upon whom he has been basing his plans are gone. Or, possibly, relying upon his ability to get one of them to return. I wonder what next. After some hours absence I returned at 5:45 to find Rhody again in the inner compartment of the cage searching, searching. Julio said he had been there about an hour. He came out in a few minutes and continued what appeared to be his search, walking a few feet (5 or 6) stopping to look and listen. He examined the territory in the vicinity of his nest, as if expecting to find the missing birds. He again returned to the cage for perhaps a minute, then off to the west to drink. He then started toward his roost, paused, changed his mind and ran hastily (about 100ft.) back into the cage. There his attention was centered upon the magpies, who have been returned to their old quarters, as if the thought had sud- denly occurred to him that the solution of his perplexities lay there. He tried to get at them, rattling his beak, for several minutes, then came out again headed for his roost. When he had reached the same point at which he turned back before (6:03 P.M.) he halted abruptly and stood absolutely without motion. I went to him and crouched 3 feet from him. He did not move anything but his eyes and lids. I tossed worms to him; still he did not move. Brownie appeared and picked the worms out from almost "under his nose" with no effect other than to cause him to roll his eyes downward slightly without moving his head. He remained thus until 6:18, when I stretched out a hand to touch him. He moved off 2 feet, but kept his head pointed in the same direction. Brownie came, stood on one leg and watched us. Julio came, still no effect upon R. He would not even look at worms tossed him. At 6:25 he stirred slightly and moved down the bank to the orchard. I then left. While this may not have any connection with the confused state of his mind due to the sudden and radical alteration of the conditions within the cage which he had been used to for months, it is perfectly evident by his actions that he simply can not convince himself that Archie and Terry are no longer in the cage, or, if not there, somewhere near. Yet he saw Terry over by Robin- sons this morning and joined him. He also saw Terry leave there and go with me towards Reynolds'. He either can not readjust him- self quickly to the new state of affairs, or else, as suggested above, relies upon his ability to get him to return. Neither Archie nor Terry has returned. I expect Rhody to abandon 2-36 if neither does and probably begin his coo, coo... call once more. It seems certain that he had counted upon one of them as a mate and had based building operations--especially choice of locations--upon that expectation. His repeated in- spection of a third possible site in the dorm, still nearer the cage than either of the others seems to point to growing certain- ty on his part that a mate had been found. Cessation of wide hunting and cooling points in the same direction. Julio is now grieving over Terry and sought assurance from me that T is happy and did not leave through fear. As I had told him of his leaving the cage abruptly as a result of his and Rhody's flurry inside, with a cut bill, he feared that the case was a parallel of Archie's. I explained that T's hurt was slight and that if he had been frightened badly he would not have permitted me to go to him in the open and powder his wound with Bf1, even without holding him and that all the time I was with him he was friendly and happy and having a good time catching insects and seeing the many new and strange things, getting worms from me now and then. Further that I could have picked him up any time