1199. At sunset Brownie had one of the youngsters in the hedge west of the house and again was especially vocal in taking worms from me. Nova and her charges were not located. June 5th. B's early song. B's early song, again from the west a few yards away, was heard before 5 A.M. B's whole family home again. On returning about 10 A.M. from an errand, Brownie, Nova and more than one of the youngsters were in the trees close to the west living room window. An apparently intelligent act of Rhody's. Rhody was on the chimney at this time, and when I called to him, sailed down toward the shop-yard. When I went there he was already waiting for me to get him a rat. This shows ability to omit one link in the chain of this rat-feeding pattern (the fol- lowing me part) and proceed directly to the crucial point. R unexpectedly sings again. The usual ritual and devotions at the shrine followed, and carrying to 5-36, but there there was a diversion from form, for, to my surprise, he began to sing his cooing song for the first time since a record of it was made in these notes. He kept this up for 5 minutes, then came down to sun his back. This song, as has been repeatedly pointed out, is sweet and sad with a decidedly pleading quality. When one has not heard it for some time, although often having heard it before, there is still an element of surprise that such a song should emanate from so large a bird. R unusually hungry. After sunning himself a few minutes he still-hunted a lizard in a woodpile without success, then to the cage for meat. He is hungry this morning. R and his favorite lizard. About noon he was crouched outside the cage waiting to snatch the resident lizard there. Again without success. At 2:15 he was back at the woodpile on the same errand. The cage lizard was in plain sight 50 feet toward me from Rhody and behind me. I went around to the far side of the cage, putting it between me and the bird and then called him. He deserted the woodpile and trotted toward me. He could not forego one vigorous tug at the rope as he passed, and that alarmed the lizard, so another chance was missed. However, he trotted to the shop behind me and there was rewarded with a young rat, for which he whined with chin almost touching the floor. June 6th. B's early song in rain. Raining about 4:30 A.M.--one of our infrequent rains in June. Brownie was singing at this time in about the same location as yesterday. I left at 5:50 A.M. and was away the whole day, return- ing about 6 P.M. (With Mr. C.H.Feltes in Lone Tree and Hospital Canyons looking at the Texas nighthawk nests of which he had located 10 previously in Lone Tree Canyon and 4 located by the two of us in Hospital. At 4 P.M.--no sun--15 ft. of film, bird on nest, dis. 6 ft. to 2 ft., first 10 ft. f2.8, last 5 fl.9). June 7th. B singing 4:20 A.M. B singing at about 4:20 A.M., same place, moved to old oak, judging by the sound. It was found that the youngsters had been brought back from the west and one or more were in the the glade or nearby. B feeding only one. Nova, presumably the rest. She gets suet for them at the oval lawn.