1627. On this occasion he spent a great deal of time recovering twigs that had been dropped previously and taking them to the nest. Plays with magpies. At 11:20, after having spent several minutes in pretending to try and catch the magpies, he returned to continue work. I was now absent until 1:15, having in the meantime taken the plover out of the cage and over to Dr. Reynolds', leaving the door open so that the interior would now be accessible to Rhody for the first time in nearly 3 months. Rhody catches a lizard. Much thrash-thrasher song. On my return (1:15) Rhody was sitting quietly on top of the cage with a lizard in his bill, resting. The court resounded with thrash-thrasher song; Neo and his mate and perhaps a third bird were there. Wrens were singing and Anna humming-birds buzzing. Neo and his mate look shopworn. At 2:30, noting in the meantime that Rhody had now begun to carry the lizard around as a love token, I went to look up Neo and mate, who were now quiet. Both came for worms at the sage patch and it was seen that both had apparently been in some sort of a fight again. Neo had a tail feather hanging down, perhaps his fourth in the last week or two, but positively not less than his third. N2 had lost body feathers here and there. A Bewick wren came and clung to the wire fence near me and I tossed it worms, which it tried to break up, but eventually abandoned. (Other wrens have eaten them whole). Neo came and salvaged the worms. Wren and worms. R presses lizard against bottle. At 2:45 Rhody was outside the fence on the north slope with his mouse. He occasionally pressed it against a glass bottle, hrooed and tail-wagged. R's behavior in cage. At 2:50 he came back over the fence with it and headed di- rectly for the cage, out of sight 60 yards away, displayed at the door, entered, dropped the lizard to eat scraps of meat, picked up the lizard and presented it many places within the cage with innumer- able hroos and coot-coots; finally eating it at 2:56. Now followed a long bout with the magpies in old-time form, with rests lying on the "arm-chair" shelf which he favored so much in previous years. At 3:29 Julio tossed him a salamander and he was down after it at once; beat it to death and gulped it. His appetite is improving. He appreci- ates old-time luxury. Thrush eats meat. I now went to the home place of Neo and N2 at the south bank. A hermit thrush was eating Hamburger there. Both thrashers were at home and were fed. Within a radius of ten feet were thrashers, a hermit thrush, two wrentits, several quail and a song-sparrow. At 3:50 Rhody was still enjoying the luxury of his shelf against the wire of the magpie cage. At 4:05 he was still there. Opening of the cage door has been a great boon to him. (60°). Neo begins full song. At 4:15 Neo began full song. Rhody was now making feints at the magpies from his shelf, soon becoming very active in his play, with frequent loud rattle-boos. Rhody kills mouse but aban- dons it. At 4:20 he came out, refused meat, but, to my surprise, fol- lowed me to the tool-house and took a small mouse from hand. This he killed but, a rare thing for him, abandoned and went off to the orchard to sun himself. At 4:34 he began to look and listen keenly in all directions: a sign that he intended to make his trek to his roost and that he wished to assure himself that the way was clear of enemies. As this would be a long process, I went to Neo's domain 50 feet away. He was in a mass of honeysuckle and roses on the fence. I thrust my hand into the tangle with mealworms. He came Neo eats from hand.