as Brownie saw it she ran rapidly up to it with tail speed, making heretofore the clucking sound which I have heard her make only when "talking" to the young birds. She inspected it a few moments, then, raising her wings, struck it a hard blow, which could be easily heard, the snake making no defense, but trying to escape into a flower bed where it got some kind of a grip and pulled hard. Brownie danced about it clucking and dealing one blow after another. I pulled the snake out from amongst the flowers, so that it would be in the open, and gave it enough slack so that it could strike back if it wished and so that Brownie might be faced with a real attack. However, the snake merely coiled up as much as it could and did not strike back, although the bird continued to give it occasional single pecks, backing away each time, and appearing to be willing to keep this up indefinitely. I do not tthink any real damage was done--I did not expect there would be-- but it was hardly a square deal for the snake, so I told Julio to take him away and confine him (instead of deporting him in accordance with our standard procedure) as I might wish to get a picture of a scene like this, because nobody would believe the story without some- thng to back it up. Brownie watched the snake's departure in Julio's custody with no particular interest--I had thought that she might fol- low--then continued, in company with Greenie who had come up after the performance was over, to gather more food. This snake was not molesting the thrashers in any way and was not even near their nest. He was undoubtedly recognized as an enemy instantly. Whether it was because he was a snake or because he was the snake, I do not know; but I more than half suspect that this is not the first time I have had him by the tail. He looks identical in size with the last four carted away and was caught in exactly the same misdoings as the last one, viz: after the pigeon's eggs. Also I believe he submits to capture too philosophically to