the 33rd. day (approx.) was the first one one which none of the youngsters was seen. Consequently, by precedent, Snooty is not out of the woods yet. new Brownie's upper tail covert are showing the vanes expanding now. At 5:35 Snooty came blithely into the glade, took a bath, ate some soft-food and worms. He heard Brownie singing 30 feet to the east and called, using his baby call. Brownie ran up to him and they sparred a little, but were to far away in the bushes forme to see the details. It did not seem very serious and Brownie retreated more than Snooty. Snooty then went north across the road, voluntarily, and Brownie followed shortly and unhurriedly by a parallel route. It did not look like a chase, but I followed by an indirect route to see what might happen. Both birds, in the meantime, had disappeared into the low trees along the north line and as I could not find them, although I looked about the vicinity and waited until 6:15. Precisely at 6:15 a succession of very loud calls was heard from the old oak. I went there and stood under it. Greenie was perched on a stub calling and looking in all directions, evidently also at a loss as to the whereabouts of his family. After calling repeatedly for about five minutes he dropped to the ground and I saw that Brownie had arrived. To make certain of the identities I induced both to come to me for worms. Also I wanted to hold them for a time to see if Snooty would come; but he did not. Both birds then went north across the road together, I followed as before, only to find nothing but towhees, etc. I had tentatively decided that they might be going to join Snooty off to the north outside the property and that Brownie might really been guiding him to a roosting place outside as a peaceful means of getting him accustomed to go elsewhere, thus solving the territorial problem without engendering hard feelings. Going back to the house I was considering the prospects of Snooty's being back again in the morning.