Consequently I "dismissed" Okii with his prey and he executed it elsewhere, having no chance to "put the bee on" me. Rhody did not appear at the cage until about 1:25, when I saw him coming from the north-east outside the fence. He went at once to his dish, drew back when he saw yellow-jackets on the meat, awaited his chance, made one snatch and retreated in triumph. Meanwhile I had an opportunity to observe how a magpie treats these insects. Kack caught one with her bill and put it under one foot and there held it while she broke it up and then ate it. 2:45 P.M. I have just come from listening to a full hour's concert by O and C during which there was no cessation of song for more than a few seconds at a time. It sounded as if there were several birds singing at the same time. During this period both reached the, as yet, high-water mark in variety and volume of dig- ging and quarter song. Also, for the first time, there was mimicry. Chiisai was the only one I could watch, Okii being out of sight in the inner cage. Chiisai, several times, introduced mimicry of the California jay, the robin and the quail. There can be no doubt of it. At 3:45, after looking carefully in all Rhody's known haunts about the garden and not finding him, I went to the roost tree. This time I was early enough, for he was not there. After toiling back up the hill in the hot sun, there was the old reptile on top of the cage watching the magpies! He lost no time in accepting my invitation to the yard to get a mouse. After loafing for half an hour on his favored oak branch, he began his march toward the roost tree, stopping for several minutes at one point to watch a band of quail in a bush 6 or 8 feet from him and making no hostile move. He went out through the gate at about 4:30, but I did not follow. Sept. 10th. Too busy to give much attention to the birds and nothing of particular interest was observed. Rhody was satisfied with one mouse and two helpings of meat and left early for his roost. Okii and Chiisai indulged in digging song often and for long periods. Sept 11th. O and C again sang often with a marked tendency to extend their dig-singing into quarter song. There was one period of about an hour when both sang almost continuously at the same time, so that the cage was full of music. They could be heard at a distance of about 100 feet. Rhody was satisfied today with one mouse (for which he cried) and no meat. This was at 1:20 P.M. He disappeared about 3 o'clock and at 3:15, I found him in the ladder tree. For 40 minutes he remained in one location preening and enjoying the sun. At precisely 4:08 3/4 he jumped across to the roost tree and in a few seconds was lying in his house. (Sunset 6:25). Unless a fog bank appears in the west he will be in full sun while in his house for more than two and a quarter hours. This matter of late exposure to sun is undoubtedly one of the factors bearing upon selection of roost location.