ate it. Dusting virtually under my nose now followed; then a slow march toward the cage entrance to visit the magpies, encountering the snake on the way. He was not at all astonished to find it; was mildly curious; stopped and "thought" about it a few moments and passed on. A brief visit to the 'pies; out for another dusting and he heard footsteps approaching. He crouched close to the ground and watched intently, moving cautiously to keep a bush be- tween him and the shifting sound until he saw that it was Julio, when he relaxed, but, to my surprise, not completely. At 5:45 he started his march to the night roost after having followed me to the oval lawn where he watched the birds and preened and once ran over to me unexpectedly from 30 feet away. April 20th. I found Rhody busy at his new nest at 7:45 A.M. He had used all the material I had gathered for him, so more was collected and he began to use it at once. 8:50 A.M. Rhody has been at ever since, and as he had used up the second lot of twigs, I got more by breaking them off from the shade-killed branches of one of the oaks near the nest, dropping them at my feet. His course was now altered and he made regular trips back and forth between the nest and me. To test his ab- sorption in the job of nest building I placed a small mouse with the twigs. (Small so that in the event he had already eaten, he still might have enough space left for this addition to his stom- ach contents). He continued to take twigs instead of the mouse, though he did not fail to observe that creature and apparently consider eating it. I therefore, after about 10 minutes , returned- ed the mouse to his fellows. At 9:05 Rhody abruptly ceased work and trotted along the hedge toward the north, taking position on top of the retaining wall supporting the road and looking and listening off to the north. Something seemed to interest him there and he did not follow when I went to the shop for a mouse. On returning to him I found him now ready for the mouse, which he took with ceremony and headed at once for the cage (out of sight 60 yards away, concealed by trees and by the curve of the road) with his funny little dog-trot, paus- ing to look off to the north now and then with bows and so forth. His destination was the mirror. On the way there he came suddenly upon the dead snake (which I had again forgotten, so it was a mild surprise to me also). R paused on seeing it, then made a detour of radius just long enough to avoid stepping on the reptile and went to the mirror (9:20). I then had to leave him there. Returning about noon, R was absent; but at 12:10 was back on the job again. He quit at 1:10 and went to the west lot. He prob- ably caught something interesting there, as I could catch glimpses of his tail wagging . When I went out to see I found him lying comfortably in his nest 4-37(in the house in the roost tree) look- ing off over the landscape spread out below. At 2:10 Julio reports he was in the cage watching the magpies, and a few minutes later was waiting at the door of the tool-house (waiting for somebody to come?). Julio acted upon the parenthet- ical thought, went there and got him a mouse which he received thankfully, carried off 50 feet, then ate. Rhody is not exactly a fool, by any means.