(215) the break up of the family circle , especially if Greenie persists in his present policy of repelling its members when they ask him for food. He took worms for himself when they were offered him and repul- sed the babies and they showed no disposition to follow him toward me. When I approached them, they retreated into the shrubbery slowly. Brownie has been the tie that has kept the group intact, evidently. When Brownie came off the nest there was a change. The oval lawn seems become to have, for the time being at least, became the center of activities. I focused the movie camera with a 4" telephoto on the original thrasher feeding table, 26 feet away. Brownie soon came to the table for food for the young. (9A.M.--variable light account of floating clouds--f/5.6--26 feet--footage from 47 to 59½)* I wanted to get her running to and from me in line with the camera, so changed to a shorter focus lens, without moving the camera. (Footage from 59½ to 78--1" len s--light fairly good--f/6.7--Dis. from 26 feet down to 10 feet) As the sun became stronger, I changed to f/8, and as a wren-tit appeared at the table, although rather far away for so small a bird, I took it with the 1" lens. (Footage to 80½) In the meantime Brownie was amongst the columbines with a big black and yellow swallow-tail butterfly,which she had seized on the grass, and which she gave to one of the young. I was not quick enough to get her in the act of catching it, as the camera was on the tripod. (To 95 feet, Brownie feeding young on the lawn--Also I feed one of them) On change of shift at the nest, Greenie came to the lawn and started digging it. I now have, I hope, positive evidence to use against him in the shape of the last 5 feet of film. (95' to end--1"--f/8-- camera held in hand--Greenie repudiates Lawn Agreement). I then sat on the grass 3 feet from the feeding stand. Brownie came and began feeding two of the young --the other being absent-- with kernels of corn and wheat picked out of the suet, the latter *See p 215A for enlargement of one frame from this film