(202) of the sunfits, etc., etc. that she has performed this morning in front of the camera. From about 11:30 to 1:30 she has been very accommodatin Just now I went to the glade to get my note book and she immediately came to me, evidently having a bad case of Hollywood fever, casting side glances at me and sidling about like a dog to see what I was about it. In one of these circumambulations her forehead came in contact with a dried blossom stalk projecting from a sage brush and she seized it petulantly and tried to throw it from her. I offered her no food at all and there was a saucer of soft food within inches of her that she knew all about, but she would not deign to notice it. Finally, not to disappoint her entirely, I picked up this saucer and held it under her nose, whereupon she ate out of it contentedly and then walked off into the bushes. Temperament. I neglected to note at the proper time a test which I made of Brownie on angle worms at the time when these worms were occasionally being taken to the nest. I dug up six worms and offered them to her in my hand. She was due for a trip to the nest at the time. She looked at them for a few moments, then selected the nearest one, ate it herself and hung about expectantly. I could not induce her to take any more of them, so after waiting a bit, I offered her, in turn, meal worms and soft food, both of which she took readily. The earth- worm, therefore, is ranked by these birds, far down the scale of food products. Incidentally Brownie has not yet succumbed to the toadstool she ate the other day. At 5 o'clock the whole thrasher family was present or accounted for. The three youngsters were in the glade, well stuffed by both of their working parents operating in cooperation with me . The two parents were not far from the berry patch digging for themselves. During Greenie's turn at feeding in the glade he picked up and dropped several twigs and at first resented one of the youngster's making personal application to him for food by making disagreeable sounds at him ,