know to have cast up 10 (?) pellets in about 10 (?) months. Since mouse-hair, when the birds are getting a regular supply of mice, is regularly present in their droppings, it would seem that the casting of hair-pellets represents more of a measure to correct faulty working of the digestive apparatus rather than a primary process in itself as with hawks and owls. It might be said that the road-punner is sick when he does this.(?). About 7 P.M. I looked for Rhody at his roosting place in the oak on the west lot. After several minutes he was seen sitting in perfectly plain sight in the adjoining tree, the branches of which interlace with those of the roosting tree. It took him about 15 minutes, during which he made four moves, to cover the distance of about 15 feet to his roost, where he arrived at 7:18½ exactly. Sunset 7:35. This is a narrower margin than usual. Although Rhody appears still to 'ave 'opes, he is doing less of his symbolical incubation in nest 5-36 than formerly, and is less attentive to the magpies. June 22nd. Rhody, surveying the world from the observatory roof at about 8 A.M., chose to disregard all activities nearby on a lower plane. At noon he was taking his turn in 5-36. At 1:10 P.M. he was still in the nest. At 2:30 he was out of it. Brownie was not seen to feed any of his brood all day and was rather independent. June 23rd. At 7:30 A.M. Rhody was in the nest and did not care to come down. At 8:30 he was down and attracted my attention by whining, following me eagerly to the shop, whining and muttering while I got him a young rat. This he killed at once by squeezing and gulped without benefit of ritual of any kind. After this, for two hours or more, he lay on the tiles of the observatory roof, comfortably digesting and placidly observing. At 11:30 he suddenly appeared where I was sitting near the cage by a chrysanthemum bush about 4 feet high and rather sprawling in habit. He saw, or pretended to see, something menacing in it and proceeded to dash into and through it, with wide loops 50 feet or more in major diameter, away from it, with loud rattle-boo's and posturings, for the next five minutes, but always keeping ei- ther the bush or me the focus of his activities. It looked as if the rat was "getting into his blood" and had proved a little heady! The excitement subsided as quickly as it arose and he became, at once, a staid and gentle citizen for the rest of the day. For about 2 hours in the afternoon, while visitors were pres- ent, he remained in nest 5-36. About 5:30 P.M., mewing of spotted towhees outside the fence to the north attracted my attention, and I went there to see if Rhody might be the cause of it all. He was preening innocently in the branches of a pine about 6 feet from the ground. He was the center of attention of brown and spotted towhees, wren- and bush-tits, plain titmice, 2 Bewick wrens, one Anna humming-bird, but paid no attention to them.