ing her, as their reappearance was almost instantaneous. Cheeky lay down at my feet for a short rest, and where it would also be convenient to pull my shoestrings and tap my shoes without getting up. Tiring of this he suddenly flew up into my lap where I held a reserve supply of soft food to replenish the dish on the ground, and after first throwing out the spatula proceeded to scatter as much of the soft, damp and greasy material as possible from the deep dish over my newly cleaned clothes, then worried the spatula all over them. During this on the ground episode a Siskin sat about five feet from me in one spot eating crumbs of dried soft food, which it cracked as if they were seeds. A fiber of soap-root was tickling it on the head for all this time (about 5 minutes) but it did not seem to mind. The thrashers' special dish in the glade is now regularly used by both kinds of towhees, song spar- rows, wren-tits and Vigor wrens. All of these birds use it in my presence. (Nest No. 38. This was located several days ago--a spotted towhees in the chaparral. The young are fed from the thrasher soft food dish. Nest No. 39. Just found by Julio--2:45 P.M. A quail's nest with three e eggs in a helianthemum almost in the middle of the upper court. The place has been watered regularly. The female was on it.) This morning there was a flock of half grown young quail with their parents in the glade about ten. The parents were very vociferous for nearly an hour. This disturbed the young thrashers and Brownie considerably, but they made no effort to dislodge them. Young quail were seen by me in this vicinity last month. (I.e. in this part of Piedmont). 4:30 At about this time one of the young thrashers climbed up to the platform at nest No.3, the one from which it came, thence to the nest and then into it. It then settled down into it like an adult bird and remained there for about ten minutes. I do not know how much longer it would have stayed, for in my eagerness to