(318) being seen darting along the fence at the south boundary. This gave rise to the impression that the place was full of thrashers, but I do not think that more than three were seen at one time and possibly only two. Brownie alone can easily look like two birds. For example, she had just been with me on one occasion in the glade, today, as close as this sheet of paper. When she jumped down I went at once to the oval lawn to see where Greenie and the youngbird were and there was Brownie already comfortably ensconced on a branch preening as if she had been there an hour. It is easy to get these birds confused with each other and I have been fooled often enough, but not this time. I had hoped that the excitement at the north fence might mean that one or more of the first brood had returned, especially as one of my visitors thought he saw four thrashers, but nothing has developed to show that they have ever come back. August 7th. About 8 o'clock two thrashers were "scripping" near the S.W. corner where I had never seen them. I went there with a gun. As they were up in a tree, it meant that if an enemy was present, it was one of which they were afraid and not a snake. There were also other kinds of birds there also, but I could see nothing but two dogs chasing each other in the street and it may have been that they were responsible. Everything quieted down almost as soon as I arrived on the spot and the birds dispersed. I went to see if anything might have happened to Snooty, but as I approached the glade, he came running out to me, so all three thrashers were accounted for. About 10 o'clock a Cooper Hawk was seen sitting in an oak within a few feet of the scene of this morning's disturbance, but was gone when I returned with a gun. This is the first one seen here for several weeks. Another enemy back again. About 11 Brownie was "sub-singing" in the glade, Greenie doing the same just outside of it--he hasn't done it for weeks. No signs of Snooty. Both Brownie and Greenie came for worms and both ate them.