1368 house and began to examine the nest, crying as I approached. He stayed there 15 minutes (until 2:20 P.M.), part of the time rearranging twigs, part of the time sitting quietly in it and frequently crying. (I had no ladder handy, so could not offer him twigs). For the next ten minutes he occupied himself with visits to the cage, passing around to the rear to move from one end to the other, sitting by the mirror and resting. During this time R5 tried to keep him in view and frequently picked up pine-needles, stones and pulled at branches. R, at times acted as if afraid of R5. At 2:30 R came and stood beside me a few moments, thence to the glade, thence to a small rock by the pine on the lower road (about 40 or 50 yards from the cage) there to preen. R5 could see him there through a narrow vista between trees and kept watch of him, At 2:45 Rhody was startled by Julio's coming upon him suddenly bearing garden tools and stepped into the bushes. We searched for him 10 minutes. At last I found him in perfectly plain view (if one looked in the right place) only 7 feet from his rock! He was perfectly at ease in a baccharis bush, blending into it perfectly despite the fact that the bush was very open and scraggly. When one allows ones gaze to traverse along a row of bushes in which Rhody is sitting 5 or 6 feet away and happens to wink at the inst- ant when his eyes are momentarily directed at the bird, he may miss him entirely. In this last series of observations we have evidence of: Further and rapid progress in Rhody's spring awakening as shown by intensified interest in R5 as a possible mate. (?) And increasing desire to build nests. to R5's recognition of me as something to which direct pleadings, and the probability of "his" being a female somewhat increased. R retires to roost at 4. At 4 P.M. (according to Julio) Rhody jumped from the ladder tree to his roost and did not go into his house. Shifts to house as rain starts. At 4:20 it began to rain for the first time today, so I went down to see if R had changed his mind about his final sleeping place, and found him tucked into his house as far as he could get. New sound by R5. At one time when I was in the cage with R5 and he was moving about, he made a series of very low clucking sounds, barely audible (Another first for him). R5 ignores magpies. It should have been recorded before, and it is still true; R5 pays no attention to the magpies. Hummers. The humming birds remain bright and active. Solution of Vf feeding not yet satisfactory. Brownie and Nova. B and N were about all day, B "finding" me wherever and whenever he chose. Also "found" Julio at R's roost tree. in 24 hours Yesterday's storm. The storm produced more than 2 inches of rain, and the wind just across the Bay at the San Francisco airport reached a max. of 65 miles per hour. No wonder Rhody was meek and subdued. February 6th. Heavy rain during the night and the early forenoon, sun not coming out until about 3:30 P.M. At 10:30 A.M. I called at the west fence (I could hear wren- tits scolding in the thicket of the west lot) and Rhody came out