1487 his sweetlittle slumber song while dozing intermittently: once in the crook of an elbow and once almost against one ear, where the slightest nuance could be detected-even the slight sound made by the gape as the edges parted company in the act of opening the bill. Except for this slumber song, Okii sings very little now and Chiisai even less. July 13th. Rhody spent a large part of the forenoon in nest 8-37 doing not much of anything. When he came down about 11:30 A.M. the thrushes, wrentits and Broken-Wing made warning sounds. The wrentits had been inspecting him in the nest. Broken-Wing had been eating at one of the suet- seed feeding stations. (She(? ) appears there often now). One of the thrushes was carrying food; so the youngsters are apparently still present. Rhody ran toward the mousery (as I thought) but, on the way, discovered a twig which he took up into the glass house. A visitor now arrived, especially to see Rhody (Mr. Preston, who had never seen him). Rhody proved most tractable: Coming first to take meat from hand, then a mouse. He also displayed with the mouse at the mirror, "did" both kinds of "sun-fits", allowed us to stand along- side him in the spread-eagle one, carried the mouse about for a half hour, then ate it in our presence. A good show. At 2 P.M. I found him again working at nest 8-37. At 3:30 " " " " " " " " At 4:00 " " " " " " " " lying near the loquat. He moved from sun to shade from time to time, and: At 4:30, came to the cage, inside of which I sat, watching the reactions of Q and C toward a lizard in a bottle. As Rhody had bee been making unsuccessful efforts to disgorge a pellet during his loafing spell, it seemed a good idea to let him have the scaly lizard to polish out his interior piping, consequently it was put before him. He flirted his wings over it in the shrugging gesture- an action which seems to be inspired more by reptiles than by anything else--stalked around it in his cat-mouse behavior, then started for the mirror. But a tremendous noise coming from a house under construction not far away, caused him to drop it. Next voices close to the fence in my neighbor's yard caused him further worry. He remained semi-frozen for several minutes, but finally retrieved the lizard, who had been playing 'possum all this time and had not moved, and carried it off. In a few minutes he was back again : this time coming to my feet, where he seemed inclined to present it as to a mirror. The intention seemed so indefinite that I looked down at my shoes to see if they were sufficiently reflective to warrant such action. As a matter of fact they happened to be fairly bright, and R was looking directly at them less than 2 feet away, but not displaying. The mirror was only 10 feet away and he proceeded there to display fully. He now carried the lizard off to the west. I did not look for him until about 5:30, finding him in nest 8-37, still with the reptile, which he soon swallowed after whining as I talked to him. At exactly 6 P.M. I looked out of the living-room window at the precise moment when he rose from the nest and dropped down to the driveway. He now began to investigate the activities of other birds in the shrubbery with theatrical poses, feints and rattle- boos, following up by pulling off one of his ridiculous circuses. This preceded a more or less sober march down the lower road to- ward his night roost.