(83) In a minute or so I could hear a slight rustling behind me, gradually approaching. Then a thrasher began to answer with the short "Blue-bird" call note and finally Brown-eyes came out of the sage and fern a few feet away and,when about two feet from my hand, paused, appeared to liāten, then straightened up and gave a loud, full-throated call, the usual opening notes of thrasher song. She was immediately answered by a similar, but [illegible] longer reply from the nest, whereupon she flew up over the fence and down into the bush containing the nest. This was an entirely new performance. There was some talking ther and then both birds came up the bank and through the hole in the fence. My first thought was that there were three birds present. That Brown-eyes had heard the third bird at or near the nest and had gone to investigate and had taken over, so that the two birds now approaching me were Green[illegible]eyes and a stranger. I went quickly to the nest where I saw Brown-eyes just settling h herself in it and no sign of any other bird. I then went back to see if there were two birds on the other side, but could not see any. I then went to the oval lawn anf found Green-eyes there. alone, ready to take worms if I tossed them to him ,but very nervous as to what might be taking place in the trees and the air above. He would not come far from the shrubbery, but would dig about waiting for me to produce another worm, close to cover. I do not know whether there was a third bird present or not. These two are running the legs off of me as it is, especially now as their nest is outside the fence and to go from a point near the nest on the inside of the fence to the nest on the outside, I have to travel about a hundred feet to their eight or ten. Moreover they have both legs and wings and I HAVE ANX[illegible] am, at present, without the latter equipment; although if there is