(344) see from my seat. If I toss a worm near a thrasher and not too far from a towhee, the latter will frequently run for it, but is usually overawed by the thrasher. The female is much the tamer. They are some- times driven away two or three feet by Brownie, but so far, not by Greenie. 11:55. On returning from town I saw Snooty at the oval lawn. I place a chair near the shrubbery, so that he would not have to cross the open to reach me, but he would not come out. I then went to the glade where Brownie (as it later proved) was singing her undersong in the bushes. To my surprise Snooty came to me almost at once half (I had just decided that he was getting wilder) running, half flying. As I was trying to get him to jump up into my hand instead of picking the worms out of it (by raising my hand so that he would have to stretch to the utmost to reach the worms, scrapping his chin in the process) Brownie ran to me and Snooty clear- out--neither bird making an issue of the matter. Snooty stayed behind me about 10 feet away, not apparently frightened, and Brownie, when satisfied, went off a few few in the opposite direction to lie on the ground and continue the undersong. By reaching back over my chair where Brownie could not see my hand, I managed to give Snooty a good feed. (These birds are not piggish in the matter of worms and eat only a few at a time). The worms were mixed with bran, so he had to dig for them, raking my palm with his very sharp bill and pecking me de- liberately several times when there were no worms in plain sight. He seems to have some association or instinct in connection with this pecking which causes him to act as if he understood that it was not ever the thing to do, because when he delivered a good one he would step back quickly a few inches and pause before advancing again. In order to search between my fingers he showed a technique which I have not observed with thrashers before, but which a tame Bullock Oriole which we had years ago used constantly on hat-bands, button-holes and fingers.