2:37 exactly he jumped to his regular night roost. He has evidently been wandering and apparently has not had too much to eat Before looking up Rhody at his roost, and after trying to get him to sing, I went into the cage with R5, who was very composed and ready for his second mouse. He gave this one a thorough beating upon the sand box where I had placed it for him. As usual with him, he had some difficulty in getting its hind quarters past the "hinges" of his bill.. After this he retired to the outer cage, where, for the first time observed, he sat quietly on a rock instead of trotting back and forth and jumping up to and down from the perch. He seemed more or less intent upon the cover into which Rhody had disappeared--and perhaps he was. On returning from watching Rhody going to roost, Brownie again located me. This appears to be his day home. Nova was nearby in the shrubbery. January 15th. (Sunrise 7:24, sunset 5:14). (The sun is now beginning to rise earlier, but only by a minute in three or four days). Temperatures are about normal after the freeze. I looked for Rhody about 10:20 A.M. (Temp. in Clearing 50) but he was not to be found. Perhaps the double-mouse feed yesterday fortified him enough to warrant his wandering about a bit. About 10:30 Brownie was singing vociferously in a small, isolated pine tree in the open north of the north-west corner of the property. On call he came for worms. While sitting on my hand he heard a thrasher a long way off to the north and reacted at once, giving a few low calls. He then flew to a branch 10 feet away and sang loudly for several minutes. (On both occasions announcing his territory occupied?) By about 11 A.M. he and Nova were singing a hysterical duet in the old oak; they were really noisy as neither attempted to coordinate his efforts with the others. This last for perhaps ten minutes when they began to go from tree to tree, still singing. About 11:20 they were in the "chaparral" near where they started their first nest last year, still vocal. Both soon perched in full sight of me 5 or 6 yards away and about the same distance apart. Nova pecked pettishly once or twice at a honeysuckle twig--a characteristic gesture of hers when near me--Brownie was now rather more interested in the prospects for more worms than in Nova, but kept track of us both. Nova moved to a sapling redwood, B alighted two feet above her. Nova crouched, spread wings, raised her head and opened her bill. One of them (or both) hahed. There being no further action I left at 11:30. They were then talking somewhere in the glade. A little before 11 I went into the cage. R5 had eaten his first mouse and cooed once for me (second time). At 1:50 Rhody was still missing, but as I was in the cage watching R5 he saw Rhody coming, cocked up head and tail and displayed his colors. R saw R5 also, but went straight to the meat dish (now outside in the entry) helped himself and came close to the wire to look at R5, standing in front of the mirror, but giving only one brief glance at it. R5 moved back and forth unexpectedly on the perches, disregarding me and watching Rhody with much interest. Rhody returned the scrutiny with raised crest and displayed colors and kept his place. He appeared less interested than R5. Neither bird made any sound. When R appeared to be los-