(345) This was to insert the closed beak --in this case--between the fingers then open the beak like a pair of compasses in an effort to pry the fingers apart. As I held my fingers pressed tightly together, Snooty could not get them apart, although the force used was considerable; enough, in fact, to distort the beak so that the two mandibles cross- each other sidewise. ( Like an open pair of scissors lying on a table.) This may, of course, have been intentional; but it did not look or feel that way. (Incidentally I have noticed that thrashers when digging,either with vertical strokes or with side-sweeps, frequently open their bills at the beginning of a stroke even when nothing is taken into the bill). Snooty still occasionally carries the "last" worm about and clucks. This is his 33rd. day out of the nest . It was about the 33rd. day that for the first time none of the first brood was seen about the grounds. During the afternoon all thrashers were seen frequently, the adults occasionally together, but Snooty usually apart. Brownie was not seen to do any hazing of Greenie or other birds. To test this as regards Greenie I tossed one or two worms between Brownie and Greenie and while Brownie usually got them, although Greenie ran for them too, that drawing back when he saw Brownie and he were going to come to close quarters, on one occasion he reached forward and took the worm from Brownie's bill without protest from her. August 20th. About 8 A.M. Brownie was at the oval lawn and Snooty in the glade, Greenie not seen. At 8:25 the same high-pitched thrasher full-song was heard from the same general location as noted the other morning. No investigation was made to determine its author. All three of the birds were seen at various times during the