the same accomplishment). On the 21st., for the first time since they were banded, Okii and Chiisai seemed to have recovered fully their attitude toward life in general, although still showing impaired physical activity. Their nesting instinct continued to manifest itself, but without accomplishing anything of permanent character at the nest itself. However, I find that there is a tendency for nest material to accumulate on the ground below the nest During this period, Chiisai, who has consistently been the "baby" of the pair, first began to refuse food offered by means of the medicine dropper, by turning his head away each time I was about to squeeze the bulb, although he had "asked" for it with open bill. Sometimes I have squeezed the bulb and missed his open mouth. He has then picked up the food and eaten it. Okii went through this phase long ago and for weeks has refused to be hand fed. Curiously enough, however, Okii, for a week or two now, has reverted to infantile behavior to the extent that he has resumed the immature yip (or kip) when hungry. For the first time, also, he was seen to take positive no- tice of the magpies on his own initiative and, again curiously, this took the form of what appeared to be a request for food. As to physical condition: except that Okii is still the larger and muscularly the stronger bird, there seems little dif- ference. The difference in strength was noted by Donald Brock when he banded them and I could easily see that he had more difficulty with O. This difference does not deter Chiisai from repelling successfully any of Okii's real or fancied encroachments, and he is just as likely to infringe upon O's rights as the reverse. There is, as yet, no apparent effort on the part of either bird to dom- inear. August 22nd. About 9 A.M. Rhody was found in his melanoxylon. Earlier the young thrashers were scripping loudly at a flock of quail at the cage. They stopped when the quail left. Thus scripping for Rhody's benefit does not necessarily indicate in - erited fear of roadrunners per se. Again, this scrip is not always an alarm note of these birds. They sometimes use it on seeing me approach and in coming to meet me. There are instances recorded in these notes when Browale used it in response to my call and continued it while approaching me even from a distance and even while sitting on my hand after arriving. It does, I believe, indicate as a rule, excitement of one kind or another. Moult again. Surviving juvenal characteristic. For several days O and C have shown increasingly conspicuous bright tawny strips in their breast plumage: two on each bird at the side of their breasts. They are much lighter than the sur- rounding old feathers and more colorful. Both birds, on being offered food by hand are still apt to "drop a curtsy" and flutter their wings momentarily-- Chiisai far more so than Okii; but both may shorten the action to a mere quick lifting of the wings and immediate replacement. Okii may omit the ceremony entirely, but Chiisai rarely. The latter may repeat it for each of a dozen or more worms offered one at a