ial as I passed underneath. The trunk of the tree is less than 3 feet from the corner of the house and the driveway passes under its canopy. I find that he can been seen working from inside the house, though the foliage interferes with a clear view. 1:25P.M. Rhody is having a tough time of it--struggling up through the tangle of branches and twigs; his plumage shows the effect of it; but he persists stubbornly. Once again he had a fall that left him sprawling with outspread wings and tail in a shrub below the nest; but he recovered the twig that he had drop- ped and forced his way patiently upward, without complaint. On safely placing it, however, he began to cry plaintively. Now I wonder why. It has something to do with me, because, now that I can watch him without his knowing that I am present, I find he does not cry when all alone. 1:50 He seems to be getting the last portion of his arboreal pathway more or less standardized, but he is leaving feathers here and there. He is now using twigs that I have gathered for him and placed on the ground nearby. The bushtits do not like to have him so near their nest; but if they have patience( Rhody will prpb- ably seek still another nest site) they will doubtless have no cause for concern in the end. (June 4, A stall works at his nest!) At 2:15 he was still working when I left to return at 3:30, finding him then paying his compliments to the magpies in the cage. When he saw me, he came out and followed to the tool-house for a mouse. (I had completely forgotten to offer him the snake). This mouse was presented at the mirror, then taken to nest 5-36,where a half hour elapsed before it was eaten, R, in the interim, hrooing softly at intervals of two or three minutes. He came down at 4:15 to warm his back. It being a rather warm day, temperatures conditions prescribed the spread-eagle pose. This was immediately followed by the customary, vigorous neck-scratching; and this by painstaking bill-work upon his breast and "arm-pits". I now remembered the snake (when he was presumably no longer hungry).and placed it about 10 feet from him. He was interested at once, but not strongly, contenting himself with going over to it and flirting his wings in that curious horizontal gesture of his which is reserved for occasions of this sort. He circled about it placidly, then went back to his sunning and preening. It was now considerably cooler and the open-bowl type of pose was used. The snake was now removed and placed in the path where I was certain he would pass it later, and "discover" it for himself. About 5:15 he began to hunt for food 6 or 8 feet from my chair. It was interesting to watch his method under conditions of his own choosing. It was mostly still-hunting: Listening--a short dash-- a stab with the bill into the earth or leaves--watching that point, and when something stirred (which I could also now see) a Jerusa- lgm cricket triumphantly seized and gulped down. Now a short wait at the same spot--a last stirring of the leaves where the cricket had lurked--more listening followed by a dash of two or three feet and a short, thick grub was extracted. I now tossed two meal-worms when he was not looking. One remained in the open. The other crawled under a leaf and stayed there. He soon spotted the one in the open, but the dash he made was for the one under the leaf: the one which I think he could not see, but which, with the aid of the dry leaf, may have been noisier. I believe he was guided by sound. The two worms were about equidistant from him. After eating the concealed one he stepped over to the other (not dashing--he had visual knowledge of its whereabouts) and