hour and a half this was his principal occupation. He then decided to follow me to the shop for a mouse, treating it with full honors. From the nest he sang his, now rare, full-song once. In a half hour he was down loafing around where I was planting things. Suddenly he saw the chipmunk about 50feet away and headed for him. The chipmunk went up a tree and thence to the roof of the house. Rhody searched very carefully about the base, in which there are large cavities, making his flirting gesture with his wings. He then went up the tree and searched through the canopy, thence to the roof, across to trees on the other side, where he had to spend about ten minutes moving the twigs that interfered with what he seemed to think a good site for a nest. Tiring of this, he came down and went through a long series of ridiculous antics all over the place, during which he caricatured himself looking for something underneath the pile of boards. Being busy, I lost sight of him for a few minutes, until a soft hroo disclosed his presence nearby, watching me. He again caught sight of the chipmunk at the same place and the previous action was repeated with the difference that he finally wound up outside this window on the terrace, where the chipmunk had arrived several minutes before him. The chipmunk avoided him by going down into an opening that surrounds the trunk of an oak that grows up through the stone paving. Rhody watched for him to reappear in a casual sort of way, and when he did, took his time about going after him. At no time did it seem that the bird really tried to catch the squirrel, and I do not think that that was his object. Nor did the latter appear to be really frightened at any time. When it became evident that Rhody was losing interest I left the terrace followed by the bird, who came to the shop yard for his second mouse of the day. This one received full honors, including the mirror, and was taken to 5-36 at 11:30 A.M. The chipmunk remained at the terrace eating the birds' food. At 1:30 he was still there. At 1:50 Rhody suddenly appeared on top of the cage with a snake in his bill. He obligingly came down close to me, laid it on the ground in order to get a better grip on it. He gathered it up, holding it in two places, so that one loop and two ends hung down. The loop hung about 5 inches below his bill, the head about 4 and the tail about 6. I am sure these figures are conservative. (Here's the chipmunk again). The length of the snake, making no allowance for the horizontal portions in the bird's bill, was, therefore, not less than 20 inches. The creature was treated with full honors, including the mirror, bows, hroos, etc. and taken to nest 5-36, where the task of swallowing began at 1:55. (Note finished at 2:06, so the process is now in progress). At 2:10 he was down on the ground again watching a wood-pile, as if looking for lizards, 30 feet from the base of the nest-tree. He "looked" as if he had swallowed the snake, but it seemed pretty quick work, and there was a possibility that he had left it in the nest for later consumption; so I got a long ladder, tape measure and a rule, (the tape to see how close my guess of 20 feet above the ground was). The nest is surprisingly well built. The flexible compositae stalks which I gathered for him and placed near the tree, have enabled him to build a structure with good curves. The bowl is elliptical in plan, 16 inches on major axis and 12 on minor, inside.