(116) took her mate's place on the nest and he came down and inspected me in the same way. My shoes seemed to be the point of interest. He wanted tp peck them, but did not. He also considered climbing on top of me to the box of worms but changed his mind about this too. also. The thrashers are standing regular shifts now. About 5 o'clock I was sitting on the ground doctoring the trunk of a peach tree that has gum disease, not having the thrashers in my thoughts, about 100 feet from the nest, when I heard a flutter of wings close to my back. Looking around, there was Brown-eyes on the ground looking expectant. I had not seen either of the MX birds for several hours, being busy about other matters. Brown-eyes maxdaunt, perhaps missed her free rations and decided to look me up, although there is always food for these birds at the oval lawn feeding station--but not worms. I produced soft food and she scrambled unhesitatingly in among and on my collection of poisons, jottles, paints, scrapers, cans and what not to reach the food in my hand. May 5th. About 10 A.M. I found a hairless green caterpillar, about an inch and a half long and nearly as thick as a lead pencil, eating new shoots on a rhododendron. I took him down and presented him to Brown-eyes who atxfirstxstarted began at once to wrestle with him. It looked for a time as if she did not want to swallow him. Then she started to take him to the nest, but changed her mind and brought him back within a couple of feet of where I sat, -faced me and beat the hapless creature on the ground so that the juice flew all about. She then straightened up and swallowed him in one gulp. After this one meal worm was enough for the time henninx being, so she went to join a robin and a titmouse to see what the spotted towhee was making such a fuss about. The male towhee , who had a worm in his beak, was making all the noise, but the female was sitting calmly.