takes restore the suet mixture to the table and then have soft food available only by personal application to myself she might: recover her apparent loss of appetite, for she is very fond of it. Consequently I made the experiment. On returning yxx- kadxyxshortlyxgfore shortly before 6 P.M. I found her off duty, Green-eyes being in the nest, and the soft food com- plex overcame. May 7th. Last night was a night of hard rain. About 8 this morning, Green-eyes in the nest and his mate off duty and invisible. In response to my calling, the first few notes of thrasher full song sounded from the direction of the berry- patch and Brown-eyes, quite talkative, and with a very wet tail, but otherwise dry, came trotting out into the road where I stood, and had a hearty meal of soft food. I rewarded her return to normalcy by giving her all the meal worms that she was willing to jump for and between worms she rolled small short stones and clods down the bank and sang various extracts from her repertoire. Her small talk this morning was based on the "Whit-you" motive with a few syllables preceding and following. At about 10 the Sampson brothers arrived to get some pictures. Brown-eyes appeared at the oval lawn and Mr. Walter Sampson set up his camera movie camera in a conven- tient distance. Brown-eyes came for worms and my job became one of keeping her contented and near me while Mr. Sampson was getting his adjustments made, without giving her enough food to cause her to leave. She was very patient, hanging about me digging and waiting for grub, but by the time every- thinig was ready a hard shower came up, Brown-eyes went back toward to the nest and the operation had to be deferred until the skies cleared and Brown-eyes was off duty again. When this happened an hour or so later, we found her at the south