(320) threatened to chase anybody in my presence up to 11:40 A.M. of this day; nevertheless a distinct readjustment of interavian relations is is now in progress. The youngster still thinks that he can lick either of his parents, so it looks as if they had not really put the screws on him yet and he has still to learn what they can do to him when, if and as they make up their minds to it. At 1:35 as I approached the glade a thrasher sub-song could be heard. coming from it. As I entered, all three birds were seen in the bushes, and all three came out at once into the open spot in the glade, Brownie to eat soft-food at my feet, Greenie to eat from the dish 8 feet in front of me and Snooty to wait for Greenie to move aside and then to eat from the same dish. This striking unanimity in the choice of food --which was there all the time--coincidentally with my arrival surprised me, particularly as none of them came to me for worms first. Brownie retired behind me to sing, Greenie back into the bushes also to sing and Snooty came to me for worms and one first-class sun-fit. Everything was harmonious during the hour I was there, though nobody fed Snooty besides myself, digging, sunning, singing, resting, preening and Brownie pulling out soft breast feathers which floated off slowly in the air. At 3:20 Brownie and Snooty in the glade came from the bushes to eat heartily of a fresh supply of soft-food separately. After this Snooty saw Brownie having a wonderful time, throwing pine needles and oak leaves out of a small drift where they had accumulated, and ran over to join in the fun; but she turned on him fiercely and, for a few seconds the air on all sides of him was a blur out of which projected beaks and claws at all angles. For the first time he backed away, plainly overawed by this astonishing exhibition of speed and agility not having been able to do anything himself but pose innocuously as the center of a whirlwind. Although she did not touch him it was a chastened Snooty that retired to sun himself and Brownie, as if to