and scan the surroundings, presumably for enemies, as they occasionally marked the positions of birds entering the trees surrounding the glade and occasionally drove them out or registered protests with them, as indicated by complaints of robins, quail and wren-tits and their occasional hasty departures when one of the thrashers investigated. June 12th. About 7:30 A.M. I went to the glade. Everything was quiet and no signs of life about. I whistled and called, but got no response. Waiting brought no results. A tour of the grounds disclosed nothing as to thrashers and there was no response from the canyon. At last there was a patter of feet behind me on the road and Brownie appeared. I gave her a couple of worms which she ate herself--a new procedure for her so early in the morning--and then two more with which she ran off along the road toward the glade 60 yards away. I followed by another route and went directly to the small cove in the bushes in the glade where I have been taking their pictures, and crouched by the food dish which I had previously filled with soft food. There was an immediate irruption of thrashers, all five appearing almost instantly within arm's reach. One youngster, in fact, flew out of a bush and lighted on my arm. They warmed all around me. Greenie, for some reason, left at once, but Brownie and I were kept busy feeding the young, who will not yet eat out of the dish, I giving them soft food with the spatula and Brownie giving them both worms and soft food, getting both from me and, finally, the latter from the dish. For the first time the young were very talkative. When all were satisfied, Brownie went up into the old oak to sing a little, the youngsters remained with me for a time and then all three began a game of tag in and out and around the bushes. Their eyes are very much like Greenie's--as far as I can see, all alike. I think this is a definite change from the color while in the nest. There the irides and pupils could not be distinguished. Now the former are distinctly lighter and more olivaceous.