ters grown. Their wing coverts seem to be finished and their tail coverts are making a good showing, but their body feathers are rough- er than ever. They seem to have lost few, if any, of the flight feathers in their wings due to the moult, although there has been a gap or two in them for some time, possibly due to accident. August 21st. 9:00 A.M. At 6:25 A.M. thrasher full song was heard to the west from a clump of oak 40 or 50 feet from my bed-room window. A similar song was heard at the same on the side toward the oval lawn. They were similar in character, but differed in detail--no more, however, than the song of any one individual differs from time to time. For a time the songs seemed to answer each other. (Snooty is outside the window on the terrace picking up grains of corn--a new location and a new performance for him. He sees me through the window--9:05-- drops it picks up a fuchsia fruit with a long stem and runs off.) (9:10-- back again --off again). Then one of the birds which had just been seen on the lawn was seen to join the other--or go to where it was singing--then there was a duet which sometimes consisted of full song by both, undersong by both, by one, etc. in various combinations, also, at times, responsive. Throughout at intervals the singing was punctuated rhythmically by two bell-like notes, the first pitched at about the the third C above middle C and the second at the G next lower. [illegible] As near as I can write them, they were "Teen--tawn." Rising in- flection on the first, which carried the accent, falling on the last. It sounded as if one of the birds only was doing the "bell-ringing", though I doubt if such was the case. The quality of the notes was "glassy" in the first and "husky"in the second. This is an entirely new phrase in thrasher song at this place. Also new was the introduction of intervals of the "dee" portion of the kildeer's call. This corresponded both in pitch and quality of tone with the kildeer's