all about, although I knew she was snooping around the vicinity, suddenly flew up on to my hands and looked for worms. 7:35 Brownie has just been getting worms from me at the front steps, and Julio reports that one of the young thrashers came to the glade while he was there less than five minutes ago and jumped up into his hands. Brownie missed this chance! ( The young quail are now being brought by their parents to roost in the oaks about the house. The first broods were seen here in May this year). As I have repeatedly shown visitors, the thrashers at this place do not seem to concern themselves about making distinctions between persons, as long as these persons behave in the manner to which they are accustomed. Thus they will go to anybody who offers food, if they want food and like the kind of food offered, provided they are not alarmed by sudden or rapid movements or movements towards them. They will invariably retreat when one moves from a standing position to a crouching one, unless the shift is made extremely slowly. In fact almost any movement of the body causes them to retreat first, even though they approach immediately afterwards. If Brownie is sitting on one of my hands and I hold the worm box in the other, say a foot away, and she is considering jumping over to it, but is hesitating for some reason, if I move the hand on which she is sitting toward the box she will usually jump either to the box or to the ground, usually to the ground and then up to the box. But if I do not move that hand, moving the box toward her instead, she may wait for the box to get near enough to pick worms out of it and remain on my hand, or she may jump to it as it approaches. It is unsafe to generalize with any degree of positiveness as to what these birds will do under any given set of conditions. I think they like to be talked to and I get the impression that if one keeps