(331) from me, most of the time within 10 feet, fully half the time within six and a large part of it at my feet and under my chair, singing all the time. While the song had its deficiencies in quality of tone, for variety and ingenuity of phrasing and unexpectedly sudden changes in character I have not heard it surpassed by any other bird. At times she would come to my side and concentrate all of her atten- ton on the song. 5:15 All three thrashers have spent a good part of the day in and around the glade. No concerted attack has been made on snooty. For the most part he has been ignored. Once Greenie ran at him and knocked him over, but not violently, and threatened to peck him while he was down, but did not. Snooty stood his ground and did not seem frightened. He has been out of the nest now about 26 days and while there has been no persistent chase of him for some time, reference to notes on the first brood shows that he has still much to endure if precedent is followed exactly, since the most persistent hunt and chase of brood No.1 occurred on the 27th. day after they left the nest. That time feathers were "spilled" and by the 30th. day the young birds were beginning to appear in the glade less frequently, due to the constant pressure of the parents, although the parents were by this time handicapped by having a second brood to look out for. August 13th. At 7:45 A.M. Snooty was up in the large horizontal branch of the old oak which overhangs the glade; the parents were not far away, as they could be heard. Snooty was finishing the drying pro- cess after a bath and as there was still food left in the dish on the ground, he evidently was not suffering from hunger, so did not care to come down at first. However, with a little coaxing, he changed his mind and came to me for worms. The last one he carried about for a long time looking for another bird and uttering the