could be induced to join him). Last but not least from my selfish standpoint; it is a very convenient location for me! For the next few days my problem will be: how to keep away from it and watch only from a distance. That will be as hard as to keep ones tongue out of the vacant space left by a recently extracted tooth. Of late Rhody has been giving a good deal of attention to the interiors of the trees about this place as if hunting for a suitable nest location, and it would now appear as if that was really his object. His first noted actual construction work last year was on April first, at which time he had just acquired a mate. She was with him at the time. March 11th. Rhody sang most of the forenoon in the immediate vicinity of this place. At 8 A.M. I offered him some meat at the old oak, but he did not want it, so clapped his wings together over his back and sauntered away. He was seen to come to the cage during the forenoon. At 1 P.M. I was parked in my car in the street, about a hundred feet from the nest, at a point commanding the nest tree and its surroundings, as well as the nest itself. As cars are continually passing this point and parking nearby, my presence should not disturb the bird. Rhody, almost immediately came down from the tree, found several twigs not more than 20 feet from it and took them up to the nest at once. I could see him in it. This procedure was followed several times, but was varied by taking dead twigs from inside the tree itself. At 1:20 Rhody came out to the street, boomed 6 or 8 times in rapid succession, ran south-west to have a closer look at a ground-squirrel that was sitting on its haunches at the sidewalk, seemed satisfied, turned away and preened in the shag of a shrub until 1:26, when he decided to go to the cage (as it proved). He was there when I got there, ate meat and then turned his attention to the youngsters, silently but watchfully, dis-playing a little. A and T both harked at him, but T soon stopped and went to rest in the shade indifferently. R and A continued their interest in each other until Rhody went off to seek shade. All birds were panting. (Temp. at cage 82). R had hardly made himself comfortable before it became necessary for him to investigate the activities of a flicker eating pyracantha berries two feet from the ground and 6 feet from Rhody. The flicker fled. R next sought a closer view of some robins in the top of an oak 50 feet away, but abandoned the idea when the birds flew when he was half way up. It was next in order to drink. When finished he noticed a twig by the dish, picked it up and started in the general direction of the nest, gathering other twigs as he proceeded toward it. It was now 1:40 and I did not follow him. Nothing was seen of a mate at any time. R worked entirely alone. In the 20 minute period he made about 8 additions to the nest. I still wonder whether he is counting on one of the youngsters and have considered releasing one of them as an experiment. When I went to the cage both youngsters came to the wire and maed; to Rhody they hark. 2:20 P.M. I find that there is a straight vista through the oaks from the cage to the nest tree and, through it, at present Rhody can be seen up and down, down and up, hard at work. This, including the auto stunt, is roadrunner-watching de lux. Now if