(330) a little shy today. 2:40. Brownie and Snooty in the glade and, while not exactly chummy, do not show any antagonism. Brownie, after a good meal, retired to a branch about 6 feet away on a level with my head and sang her sub-song for several minutes. She introduced the young grosbeak call several times. I think she has learned this only since these birds have been about the glade so much during the past few days. Perhaps a desire for information inspired her yesterday's attempt to get close to one of them! August 12th. About 7 A.M. one of the thrashers was heard singing loudly near the oval lawn. At 8 o'clock Snooty was on the edge of the glade and his two parents were at the oval lawn. About 11:30 I entered the glade and sat down, having just finished a general clean up, loosening up of soil and a thorough soaking of everything, including the ground and bushes where the thrash ers spend so much time loafing. The birds were in the glade when I began operations and I wanted to see if they had been driven out by the sprinkling especially. However I had no sooner sat down than Brownie came directly to me with a large lump of mud on her bill which she did not try to dislodge and jumped up on me with her muddy feet, so she had evidently taken advantage of the watering to dig in the loosen- ed earth. In a few minutes Snooty also came out, much interested in the drops of water hanging on the leaves and twigs, digging and turning over stones, practicing the full-grown thrasher "Scrip" together with his undersong and an occasional attempt at a full-voiced call. Both he and Brownie were delighted with the wetness of things. Brownie sang her undersong continuously for the next 45 minutes without inter- rupption except when taking worms from me or eating soft food. During this time she was never more than 20 feet away