(332) parental clucking feeding call, but could find no takers, so had to swallow it himself. At 9:30 he was at the oval lawn. I went to the glade and the two adults who had been scripping some distance away and in opposite directions from the glade approached, one at a time. Greenie appeared near first in the top of the old oak. Brownie climbed up to him all the way from the ground and the "conversed" in pantomime. Brownie came down and cleaned out the box of worms on my knee and then collected a sheaf of soap-root fiber only to drop it and collect another and so on, all the time making little inarticulate sounds. It is strange how the nest-building instinct seems to insist upon coming to the surface at unexpected times—or what looks like it. Even Snooty will pick up and carry twigs and similar material occasionally and the adults have been seen to do this irrespective of season. At about 10:30 one of the thrashers was singing in full voice. When I attempted to locate the singer the song gradually died out and the two adults came out of the chaparral whence the sound came, got to the glade side by side and proceeded to eat out of the soft- food dish, so I was unable to identify the singer. At 11:30 I was giving worms to Snooty in the glade when Brownie suddenly appeared out from under my chair and insisted upon taking the worms herself. Snooty moved away a few feet and when I tossed worms to him, Brownie snatched them out from under his nose, but made no effort to drive him away even though Snooty crouched and glared at her with open bill. They both remained in the glade. If Snooty knew anything about the history of his brothers and sisters of the first brood he would be justified in regarding his plans for the future as subject to complete revision at a moment's notice. At 2:30 both Brownie and Snooty were in the shrubbery at the oval lawn where they could catch the sea-breeze. It was very hot in the glade. There were no signs of hostilities.