(162) About 6 o'clock in passing the glade I saw the two thrashers worrying a large, very light colored, worm-like creature fully 4 incens long and thicker than a lead pencil as near as I could judge. Each took turns at slapping it around on the ground. Finally eachd siezed it by an end and pulled hard with feet well braced. Whatever it was, it must have been tough, as it did not break. Green-eyes won and took it, presumably, to the nest as he headed in that direction. A few minutes afterward I gave offered Brown-eyes an angle worm, also about 4 inches long, which she took and broke up into short lengths after a struggle of perhaps 5 minutes; the long time required being called partly by the way the pieces flew about and had to be found again. She got all the pieces she could found and took them to the nest, but I think that there was less worm than when she started. May 24th. At 8 A.M., in response to call, Brown-eyes came from the hillside below to the north-west, carrying something in her bill. This did not deter her however from coming for worms, when the object was seen to be a China cricket divested of legs, etc. She laid this on the ground in order to get the worms and then ran rapidly to the nest, returning shortly for a new load. This time she got a good one of at least 20 worms--a feat requiring great patience--as many were dropped and picked up again, only to have more fall out of her bill than the one or two she was seeking to recover. At one time, when she had dropped one, three more fell out. In trying to get these, the number increased to 7. Then she put them all on the ground and started all over again. Finally she had to abandon three of the original number which she had gathered. I picked these three up and put them in the box and on her return she looked for these three in the place where they had been dropped, before jumping up for more