As has been noted previously, the "crying" of these young birds has been on the increase recently and I have been puzzled to account for this seeming reversion to second childhood. (Although it should be stated that they cry much more now than when mere squabs). Just before the nesting incident both birds had had had mice to eat, and Archie had eaten a second one (unusual) just be- fore he began moving the twigs about in the nest. This crying has seemed to me to be the expression of a want which I was not able to satisfy. In the present instance, as in innumerable others in the past, food was not the object. Usually my entering the cage and talking to them stops them, but it may be renewed as soon as I go out. I have often wondered if the unknown "want" which seemed to be partially satisfied by my companionship, was not really an indication of the awakening of the sex-instinct. The foregoing incident lends some support to that view. "Points" of A an T and Rhody. Rhody is still, in every way, by far the largest of the three birds. His skin-patch is much more bright|in the red, but differs little in the blue. His feathers are more colorful and the colors more saturated. Archie seems to be only slightly larger than Terry, but his tail is longer and wider, even allowing for the two cut-off rectrices still, by the way, in Terry's tail. Archie's red is more brilliant than T's and deeper in hue. He is stronger than T. (Noted in mouse-killing). He is more aggressive, though still very gentle. He takes whatever sleeping place he wants, irrespective of Terry's views in the matter. He goes to bed earlier than Terry and is now rivalling Rhody in that respect, sometimes beating even Rhody to retirement. With him the interval between his retirement and sunset is growing shorter. Terry cries more than Archie, but A cries more than he formerly did. Terry is more shy of Rhody than A. Twice today, when Rhody got too close (Say 2 feet). T came to sit on me. He is gentler and shyer than A, and seems to like human society more. He is less interested in Rhody. Rhody is less interested in him than in A (?). Uncertain. He tolerates handling more readily. Both A and T have become more vocal of late, rattle-booing more frequently and more times in succession--sometimes 8 or 10 times. Neither has as yet made the adult coo-coo..... call. Both now hroo oftener, sometimes on my shoulder. In the last two or three days Archie has developed a new stunt: lying in one or other of the "nests" and snapping his beak softly and slowly as if experimenting. Sometimes he decreases the interval between snaps until it becomes a soft rattle. There is no voice with it. Rhody and Brownie. When Rhody left the cage this afternoon at 4:45 (A had al- ready gone to bed). I went to the orchard to see if he was going to his regular roost. (He was). He stopped when he saw me and came