1461 seemed out of sorts and had made this sound. As I entered the doer, Rhody jumped down from the table, scattering various dishes and feeding appliances over the floor. Chiisai was the one doing the yelling. Okii was perfectly calm. Neither bird was flutter- ing about. This is the way it was on their first introduction to Rhody. Rhody now found himself cornered, but kept his head though erious. He wanted to see more of the young birds and jumped up on to the typewriter messing up the preceding page, as will be seen. The hole after the word preliminaries just below the mid- dle of the page was punched by one of his claws. I shooed him down. He then rose to the ceiling with astonishing ease and gace, floating down almost soundlessly. The cheeky fellow did not want to go out, but I opened so many doors that it was easier to go out than stay in. He left deliberately, and when I headed for the tool house, trotted along behind for his mouse. At 9:45 I placed the worm box in front of Chiisai on the floor of the cage. Soon he began to pick out and eat worms and pupae . He still thinks that, if he opens his bill wide enough and holds it over them, they ought to do the rest. Okii was less advanced in this art and only ate one. About 11 A.M., both birds having been singing in the meantime, and Okii having been making bathing motions at the water dish, I p put a bath tub in the cage. Chiisai was the first to go in, step- ping in boldly and sending the water flying all over. Consider- ably later Okii also bathed. C preened thoroughly in the process of drying, but O hardly at all. At 1:30 the bird cage was removed to the living room and I returned to this room at once. Rhody was under the table and greet ed me with a hruh, hrooo-o-o. He took his time, after perching on the back of a chair, about going out, and then followed me to the shop-yard. I produced the alligator lizard. R took one look and flew to the top of the wall. (The tin containing the lizard was bright and flashed the sun into R's eyes, so the cause of his retreat is in- determinate.) When I went to the tool-house, he followed and wait- ed, crying. I offered him three sizes in order of size, begin- ning with the largest: a medium sized one. He wanted none of them and still cried for something. I went to the house for meat. He now came out of the cage and waited in front of me, but would not take the meat. He then went to spread-eagle sunfit. I found the meat in the cage gone, but whether R took it or not I do not know. He certainly expected some action on my part. What was it? Did he expect me to hand him the young thrashers? At the 2 6'clock feeding both young thrashers took worms from the box held up to them. A teaspoon full of moistened soft-food was offered them. Okii stiffened, raised his wings and backed off as soon as he saw it it moving toward him; Chiisai snarled. Neither would touch it. They are apt to "snarl" at any strange object; O less so than C. At 4 P.M. Rhody came to the tool-house for his mouse. I had been taking motion pictures of him in his spread-eagle pose to put on record his neck-scratching act that follows the pose. At 7:30 P.M. I found him stowed away in his house-nest in the roost tree with only his bill visible from below. I had rather