his mate. At times he almost crawls to me ready to explode at any instant. After each worm he retreats a shorter distance and returns more readily until he finally appears quite at ease, hang- ing around and sun-fitting. Catching insects in the air. One of the thrashers yesterday, while on the oval lawn, jump- ed up into the air about four feet and caught some sort of a flying insect, put it on the ground and prepared it for swallowing. This is the first time I have seen them catch insects in this way. An attempt to catch a lizard in order to note thrasher re- action towards the reptile failed because I caught it by the tail and it escaped by parting with that member. 10:00 A.M. Brown-eyes, off duty on the oval lawn, comes run- ing for soft food. She is very fond of it and eats it contentedly from my hand. If I hold my hand by the side of the shallow tin box in which the food is carried, she will take it from hand by preference. Active salivary glands. These birds must have pretty active salivary glands as their saliva often splashes on my hand when they shake their heads to rid themselves of some particle of food that has adhered to their bills. External appearance. Their bills are not black, but more of a dull slate color. Looking down upon B.E.'s back at about 18 inches distance: her tail is somewhat darker than her back; her back is much darker than her sides and nearly all of the flight feathers have a lighter color- ed border at the tips. Her legs and feet are about the same shade as her bill. The superciliary stripe seems to be a sort of eye- brow, as it projects beyond the surrounding feathers. Until one sees one of these birds op_n its beak wide one does not realize how far back the opening extends toward and below the eye. While it cannot, perhaps, be definitely counted upon as a characteristic difference, Green-eyes almost always carries his