song by this bird could have been heard only at a distance, and BW long ago failed to adopt this as her(?) territory. As a consequence I believe that their singing to date is "self inspired" and is merely an expression of an ancestral inherit- ance. They "just have to" sing. Curiously, as only a wire fabric is all that separates them from the magpies, their "instruction" to date, if any, has been in magpie song, yet not one cheep have I heard from either that in any way resembles magpie vocalization--with one exception; and that is in the case of certain magpie notes that are known to resemble some of those of the California thrasher. This is one of those numerous instances of accidental resemblances in the songs of birds. Sept. 26th. 7:20 P.M. Well. About 8 AM. when Okii and Chiisai came to meet me at the entry of the cage, I found the former's head had a bald spot about one half inch square where the feathers had been scrapped off, and there was a cut with dried blood also. I did not notice it at the time, but an hour later, it was seen that Chiisai had suffered a slighter injury at the base of his bill. These the first observed disfigurements traceable to their being caged, if we except Chiisai's toenail stepped upon by me. (Incidentally this claw is extremely slow in being replaced. The new one--which may be deformed--is only about 1/16 inch long after all these weeks). I was then confronted with the same dilemma as in the case of the two young roadrunners, Archie and Terry: Was it a case of dis- turbance by a night prowler, or was it internal conflict due to growing incompatibility of the maturing youngsters? Careful search disclosed a tuft of small head feathers at one place on the wire of the upper annex. As the roof had been covered with the awning, and the birds have been showing increasing constraint in their relations, it seemed that one of their frequent little sparring matches might have developed into something serious-- Archie and Terry all over again. I resolved, therefore to give them their liberty and this is h the time of year that I had previously decided would be the most advantageous. Accordingly as both Mr. Cain and Donald Brock--to- day--gave it as their opinion that the two birds were properly banded after inspecting them, the cage door was opened at 2:30 P.M. when no visitors were apparent. present Liberation of Okii and Chiisai Neither bird was in haste to come out. Chiisai was the first, but he attached no significance to the event beyond the fact that, for some unexplained reason, he could now dig at the threshold of the door where had always wanted to dig but could not. He could see little more than he could with the door closed, because the door door was of coarse wire mesh. Really he could see less, because he did not even have the wire now! He did not appear to notice that the world had changed a particle. The ground within 6 inches of to the door was all that concerned him, so he dug and, when tired of that went back into the cage. Archie followed in a minute or two, but to him also, the world was a flat plain suitable only for digging into and extending no more than three feet from the cage. There was no up and no down until a hawk rustled in the pine tree overhead (Equivalent to our hearing something in the mystic's "fourth dimension") whereupon both birds froze. Neither looked up into the tree. Chiisai, who was now standing in the entry, said quilk, quilk, quilk, very softly