xxt (99) eyes came hopping down from limb to limb "talking" all the time. 1) While eating from my hand she kept up a continuous flow of talk. At times she appeared to be asking questions, using a rising inflection. Finally she went back into the tree again and in a few minutes went down to the nest. I called at inter- vals and Green-eyes, who for the last few days has been dis- appearing immediately on finishing his turn at the nest, thus not getting any food from me directly, came out of the glade, ran to the hole in the fence and stood there looking and listening. When I showed him worms he abandoned whatever his original purpose was and came for food--not taking it from my hand, however, but from about two feet away. He then dis- appeared in the glade. At present this looks like a "bust up" of this particular effort. Their disappearance for several hours might mean that they are seeking a new nesting site. If so, their persistence is much to be admired. At 1:50 both birds were in the glade, a bad sign, as, with the first nest this meant definite abandonment. Brown-eyes came for food with little warbles and questioning calls. During the period incubation she does not talk at all. If they associate me in their minds with their misfortunes there is no evidence of in their actions. During the short career of the young thrasher there was no sign of his having been being fed . I suppose he is "mostly egg" for the first day or so and needs no ex- traneous food supply(?). At 4P.M. no birds in sight. I called them at the glade, but no answer. I went to the nest and both eggs were stone cold, no signs of being pipped. Back to the glade, both birds there digging vigorously. Green-eyes had a hole so big that he was almost out of sight. Brown-eyes came to me with a