1490 came to call and climbed over the fence in the presence of six persons. He, however, would not accept a mouse and wandered away. Since Okii and Chiisai have become meal-worm addicts they have grown noticeably tamer. The meal-worm is a civilizer after all. Today while I was placing an electrical fixture inside the cage (a wall socket for easy connection of the remote control of the camera) about four feet from the ground, they climbed up to my hands pecked at the screws, and screw-driver and fixture. As long as they sat on my hands I could do nothing. Chiisai decided to "do a sun- fit" there and Okii moved up to hammer at my neck and probe into my ears. They were absolute nuisances. For the first time today Chiisai made frequent application to the soft-food dish and ate freely and entirely on his own initiative. This, I hope, indicates his final "breaking-in". It has taken 59 days for him to see the light! He seems now as strong as Okii. July 19th. About 8:50 A.M. I went to the cage, finding Okii and Chiisai unusually active and both yipping. They rushed to the wire on seeing me and dashed into the entry as I opened the inner door. Although they had plenty of food available, both, especially C, were hungry. Feeding them by hand did not stop their yipping. It is a rarely that Okii yips. Except for this restlessness and noisiness they behaved in normal fashion. I was unable to discover any reason for it. It was noticed, however, that, for the first time, "The fly" was riding around on Okii's head, although he did not appear to notice it. Yesterday he had been seen to start once or twice as Brownie used to do when presumably bitten by one of these insects. After a few minutes, Chiisai in one of his quiet moments, probed hurriedly at different points of his anatomy, flew to my shoulder and almost simultaneously a small fly appeared from somewhere and was promptly snatched out of the air close to my ear, killed and dropped. Okii at my feet, instantly gobbled it, so I could not "collect" it. C continued to yip and C settled for a short nap, occasionally yipping softly, but soon was as restless as ever. Rhody's semi-spread eagle sunning posture. Meanwhile Rhody, who apparently decided to stay home this morn- ing, came to the cage, looked at the meat, but went off a few feet to preen on the circular-saw bench. I went to him to observe I could count but 8 feathers in his tail. It was warm enough for the "spread-eagle" sunning pose, but, as is usual when the surface upon which he rests is too irregular or too confined in area, he used only the semi-spread type. Seen at 4 feet distance and at waist height, in the brilliant sun he was a really beautiful pic- ture. He held the pose for several minutes fixedly. In this pose he stands instead of lying down; bows his head down nearly to the level of his feet; erects crest and displays his skin colors; spreads wings out horizontally to their fullest extent, but instead of being flat, they are flattened domes; spread his tail fully spread. The attitude, depending upon ones point of view, is curiously that of one who stands upon an eminence with bowed head and asks a benediction upon a surrounding multitude; or, of one bowed in humility before a conqueror and asking mercy. Notwithstanding this reverent attitude, R was quick to follow me for a mouse. This one was at once eaten without any foolish- ness: the first not honored with ritual for several days.