(74) There will be times when they will get well roasted at the new location. The nest has progressed rapidly, although they do not seem to work very much. About 6 P.M. I gave both of the birds a good feed, Green-eyes being very tame for him. April 1st. 8 A.M. Both birds working industriously on the nest. Brown-eyes came through the fence promptly in response to call. She jumped up on my hand with her cold feet in order to get at the food better. It is rather surprising how heavy she is. She then attempted to drag a very large twig through the fence, but had to give it up. The chaparral bank is ideal thrasher territory and the Kangaroo thorn possibly is thorny enough to discourage offer some discouragement to outside interference. Green-eyes is getting tame again--that is, when he feels like it. He came up beside me where I sat on the low wall to eat from my hand quite like his mate, this afternoon. Both had a good feed about 6P.M. They are quite busy at the nest, getting much of their material in the glade and carrying it through the fence their special passageway in the fence. The forked twigs catch on the wire and they are getting the opening obstructed with twigs they have been compelled to abandon. April 2nd. At 7:30 this morning the thrashers would not look at me. They performed various evolutions in the tree tops-- higher xxx decidedly xxx than their regular zone of operations-- burst into chased each other around the bushes and xxx short snatches of song. They were decidedly living, for the time being, on high plane of fervor. Brown-eyes One of them tried to carry a huge huge branched twig over the fence through the air, but it got entangled in her wings and she fell about eight feet to the ground. I went out again at 8:25, at which time they had come