3:45, Lt. 900, Temp. 69. Both having "sun-fits" of longer duration. 3:46 Conditions same. Archie saying ook, ook and bringing small stones and laying them on top of my feet. 3:49 Both birds now alarmed by the cries of children in the distance, partly restless and partly frozen, therefore not considering light and, or temperatures. 4:10 Lt.900, Temp. 65. Shadows of trees now encroaching upon cage. A picking warmest spots in cage in sun and opening up. T also seeks warmer spots and wants to go to bed on my shoulder. (The earliest hour at which he has done this). This is about the time of day that they get restless. 4:15 Lt.800, Temp. 62 No change. I went to look up Rhody, who had not appeared at the cage, contrary to expectations, and suspected that he was searching for his mate still and probably with a lizard. (I.e. had not appeared during this test). Found him on the railing of the Scamell porch with something in his bill that looked like a long, thick, hairless worm. Approach to 6 feet showed it was a very small, limp, tailless lizard. I had not seen Rhody since about 9:30 A.M. on account of my absence, then and noon. Mrs. Scamell said he had been carrying it all day. Questioned further, she said she saw him first with it when a plumber arrived at about 10 A.M., that she had then been puzzled as to what it was he carried that was so small and had investigated and found it was a small lizard. Throughout the rest of the day she had seen him going and coming several times, always carrying this same lizard. She felt sure it was the same lizard. He sang with it in his mouth. (I have also noted this same action frequently). R showed no disposition to leave until a noisy truck climbed the hill, when he left. I went to his tree and he was in his night roost at 4:27. sitting quietly still with the creature in his bill. I talked to him, suggesting that it was now too late to find any takers and he had better eat it. This he promptly did. I have no reason to doubt the substantial accuracy of the time of the 10 A.M. observation. (Mrs. Scamell, to verify it, asked her maid what time the plumber came, and was told: 10 o'clock). The fact that he put in no appearance, contrary to custom, between noon and the time when seen by me at the Scamell house, indicates a prepossession elsewhere not usually shown except when he is actively in search of, or in company with, a mate. And that is what, as indicated, aroused my special interest at this time. I also believe it not unlikely that he carried this same lizard for 6 hours or more continuously, extraordinary as it may seem. It is in line with last year's courting behavior, although it doubles any time interval then noted. In any case, without this incident, the lizard-carrying behavior of this particular bird, confined to mating season entirely, has already been established on past performance. At 5:20 Rhody was still in his roost.