1396 By 2 P.M. he was back at the cage, and for nearly an hour, with resting periods of 5 minutes or so at a time, he persistently tried to get at R5--dogged and silent. Through the door through the window in the upper part, he tried to reach him. R5 ran from place to place seeking to avoid him and becoming more and more frightened as the bird ran and flew to overtake him, making strange kerr and hwah sounds. (I.e. R5 made them) and rattle-booing. R5 was fast approaching panic, but was wiser than Archie in avoiding hurting himself on the wire. When R5 would seek seclusion in the acacia branch Rhody would go up and run over the roof and frighten him out again. During resting periods R would, when on the ground, cock one eye up and gaze at R5 in the branches as if contemplating some new method of reaching him. R5 became so frightened that, once when I went in and stood below him without announcing my coming, he dashed off as if I were Rhody but soon checked himself. When Rhody got tired of this he went to his contemplated new nest location in the tree at the glade and began to whine as soon as he saw me approaching--even before he had left the ground-- continuing after he reached the location and began adjusting interfering branches. These notes show repeatedly that R almost invariably whines when in a nest, or even when "thinking" about a nest, on my ap- proach. On returning to the cage to see if R5 had come out of his re- treat, I found him fairly calm in the outer cage, but he soon be- came nervous again, cause: Rhody running past with a twig for nest 2-36! 3:50. Brownie has not been seen at his nest here today, but when I went to the west fence about 1 P.M., he was heard in the thicket with Nova, soon came to the fence top for worms, then drop- ped to the ground and began fussing with soap-root fibre. (The thrashers have me all mixed up too!). 3:54. I have just been out to see what was doing. I spotted Rhody at the cage from 125 feet distance. He saw me at once and ran swiftly toward me without hesitation. We met where the path to the tool-house joins the driveway on which I was walking. He then turned and went toward the tool house, running half side-wise watching to see if I was coming and veered into the shop yard to take post at the window to watch me get a mouse, crying pitifully with bill touching the pane. When I came out he was already waiting for me, crying of course, as if starving or, at any rate, needing a mouse for some pressingly important project.--instantly. He took it at once from my fingers and gulped it down in 5 seconds, and he had just had a big alligator lizard at 1:15 and a mouse for breakfast. How much else he had found for himself I do not know. Now why all this sudden voracity? Perhaps the scaly lizard had scraped out his pipes and made him feel empty. At 4:10 I went out to the cage again, finding R5 running back and forth along the wire rattle-booing excitedly. At first I did not see Rhody, but he was sitting quietly peering in at R5 through the bushes from the opposite side of the cage. R5 had blood on his bill from an abrasion on his forehead. It looks as if a case parallel to that of Archie may be expected. Should developments proceed along present indicated channels R5 will be released, as I am not going to have him worried to death by Rhody, even if "his" sex is never determined, and Rhody never gets a mate. It will not be good science to release may