The real history of the covey of attentionartists who call themselves The Birds. A great deal of uncertaintyand even some genuine confusionsurrounds the origin evolution and activities of the socalled Avis Tertia or Order of the Third Bird. Sensational accounts of this attentional cult emphasize histrionic rituals tragic tranceaddictions and the covert dissemination of obscurantist ontologies of the art object. Hieratic ecstatic and endlessly evasive the Order attracts sensual misfits and