(205) after having fed him soft food young birds--there were no other birds present--and after a time he managed to pick it up awkwardly after dropping it several times and handling it gingerly. He was at a loss as to what to do with it-- perhaps he had had enough--as his crop stuck out--and stood there holding it. At last he ran into the bushes and I could see him standing face to face with another young thrasher, neither making any move about it. This lasted for, perhaps three minutes, when he gulped it down without much difficulty. The eye color of the young ones is no longer a uniform black (or nearly so). The irises of all of them appear to be taking on the color of that of Green-eyes. This makes me think more than ever that the latter is a younger bird than his mate. This morning Brown-eyes jumped up into my hand carrying a yellow-jacket hornet in the tip of her bill and was about to pick up a meal worm, when I discouraged her. She then fed it to one of the young. I neglected to record that Brownie dug up a centipede day before yesterday and laid it by the hole. Each time it was covered by loose earth from her continued digging she unearthed it and laid it aside again, showing that she intended to use it eventually. This happened four times and she then took it to one of the young birds. 9 A.M. (this paragraph belongs on preceding page) 1" lens, f/8 stop, bright sun, from 48½ to 75½, Brownie feeding, 3 young, but perhaps the two in the upper left hand corner were not in the picture . About twenty minutes to eight, P.M. the two parents were supervising the selection of roosting places for the night. There was a marked tendency on their part to accompany each of the young to its resting place. In the case of one youngster, this was definitely the case. Brownie, in this instance, partly preceded and partly followed, talking and encouraging. She then went to another of the young ones. At intervals one or both parents would appear near the top of the old