I wished and brought him back. In fact did it once, put him in the open cage and he went to work on his nest. I explained further, that, while I did not like to let him go and miss him badly, I want him to be happy, and if being free is what he wants, then that is what I want for him, notwithstanding that I know danger confronts him. The same, I said, applies to Archie, though I regretted that he should have left in fear. April 8th. Rhody at cage, refuses worms. At 7:30 A.M. Rhody was standing by the cage staring at it quietly. Though tame and friendly, he would not take worms drop- ped at his feet. No greetings came to me from the cage, only the sound of wild flutterings of a brown towhee and a golden-crowned sparrow that had wandered into it. Rhody in street, wants worms. At 8:20 Rhody was out in the street looking and listening. He trotted to me, this time glad to have worms. He then rattle-boed sonorously, went to the cage for another look, then carried twigs to nest 2--36. He has not yet adjusted himself to the changed conditions. He should be searching farther afield. R shifts interest to magpies. On going to the cage at 10:45 I found Rhody inside searching. He came out only to return in a few minutes, turning his attention to the magpies. It seems that his hopes at present are centered in these birds. R in cage again. The cage was again visited at 11:50. Rhody soon came running past me, entered the cage, went up into the upper part and all through the thick foliage of the acacia branch there. Finding nothing, he came out, stopped, went back to watch the magpies. He wanted no food of any kind . Terry at Reynolds' About 4:30 P.M. Mrs. Reynolds phoned that one of the road- racers was at their place. I knew it was not Rhody as he was here. I went over to see the bird but he had moved on into one of the other gardens and could not be found amongst the shrubbery. It was undoubtedly Terry. (Terry or some - See later) On returning here about 5 Rhody was in the cage again. At 6:15 he was still there when I left. In the meantime he had been in and out of the cage perhaps a dozen times, practicing his new stunt, which appears to be based largely on the magpies, though it is also combined with a search of the inner compartment and extended periods of reflection there. The magpie portion depends upon use of a certain shelf inside the 12 by 12 extension but against the wire netting of the magpie cage. This shelf is about 1 foot square and has a back of sim- ilar dimensions which is against the wire. Rhody sits on this shelf facing the back and crouches low. He can not see the birds on account of the back, but he waits patiently and when he hears one of them on a perch close to the wire, suddenly thrusts his head around the edge of the back and aims a "pulled" peck at them. The fact that he pulls his peck shows that he knows that that he can not reach them through the wire. When he gets tired of this he leaves the cage and starts off in the direction of his night roost, but may be back again, running and flying, in anywhere from 10 seconds to 5 minutes. It looks as if he varied the time in order to take the magpies unaware. The magpies are not much excited by it but occasionally oblige by fluttering and comment. I do not know whether Rhody does this for fun or because of some mating