ing interest slightly I offered him meat through the wire and he picked small pieces off of it. I now went outside to see if his interest in mice was stronger than in R5, so went to the tool-house to get one, hoping also that R might carry it about (or to R5) as a courting gesture. Rhody did follow me to get the mouse. This time he ran off with it to the old oak, took a rather long time in killing it, but showed no intention of using it as an offering, remaining quietly stand- ing under the oak. I now returned to the cage and went in, thinking it barely pos- sible that, if I cooed, etc. Rhody might be fooled into thinking it was R5 and come. (They could not see each other as there is a bank with trees and shrubs between the cage and the glade). R5 was still interested in R and seemed to know about where he was. My imitations are poor, but twice, separated by an interval of about 5 minutes, I did stimulate a rapid succession of beak rat- tles (without voice) from R, but he would not come and stayed quit- ly where he was for perhaps 20 minutes, later moving to within 40 feet of the cage, but still out of sight of it and not at all interested in it. In fact he remained faced in the opposite di- ection until 3:15 when an entering car caused him to seek refuge in the glade. R5 continued to look for Rhody, and once walked between my feet to get out into the outer cage. He caught a mouse placed on the ground at my feet, but let it go. When he began to pace back and forth on a long perch I placed the mouse in his path. He jumped over first. The next time he picked it up and dropped it to the ground, as if to get it out of his way. He was still interested in R's whereabouts it seemed. Finally he lost interest in outside affairs, and when I put the mouse in his can, went and got it promptly, ate it and retired to sun his back. This ended the epi- ode. At 3:30 Rhody left the glade, presumably for his roost. Before this Brownie had discovered me there 8 feet from Rhody. He was a little "stiff" about R, but R pretended not to see him at all. This "stiffness" of B's on such occasions usually shows as a sort of stiff-leggedness in his walk. At times, however, as on this it is manifested by a peculiar mannerism which consists in slightly lowering his upper lids and raising them again at irreg- ular intervals. January 16th. I looked for Rhody at 10:20 unsuccessfully, so decided he was out roaming around and gave up. However, when I approached the cage he was sitting quietly on top looking at R5, who was calmly sunning himself in the open part of the upper annex. I went in and closed the door between the inner and outer portions and invited Rhody, who was now down on the ground watching me, to come in; but he gave one short rattleboo and strode off to warm his back at one of his favorite spots just outside the glade. Just before this, as I turned up the driveway on my return from R's roost, Brownie, scripping loudly, came up from the street to me. While he sat on my hand, he continued to scrip. (Nova answering him in the same way from the glade. I listened intently to B's call, trying to analyze it, but it was hopeless. I could not detect the consonant (if any) with which it begins. There may be some sort of a "stopped" sound there -- I think there is, but all I can be positive of is that it "just begins". There was no S, nor was there an R. The vowel is; most