(349) nestling with pin-feathers just sprouting (so there is another S.T. nest- and in August) and either a vireo or a kinglet seen and heard singing in a ceanothus only a few feet away. This song is the one which Brownie has been heard to reproduce exactly. (See p.5.) If Snooty was the young bird seen with his parents, it will be may have seen that he deliberately looked them up and that he was not chased away. About 11:00 Greenie at the oval lawn singing undersong, Brownie in the glade doing ditto. Brownie used the "bell motive" for the first time in my presence in undersong. Other phrases were numerous, most of them impossible to approximate in writing. Some were variations of ones already recorded, such as those based on the pit-yoor-i-ki motive. These were: Pee-yoori; pee-yori; Pit-yoori ; pit- yori. Then there was the Yay-cup base with its Yacup-yacup-dee-dee. Also a long clear whistle that was trilled. Ca-dah-cut was again included. Nest NO.46 ( At about 2:15 I decided to look for the Spotted Towhee nest beginning at the place where the parents make the most noise. After locating this I displayed one worm at a time. One of the parents soon came for the first one, disappeared into the lower branches of a small pine and reappeared without the worm. This was repeated several times, the bird (the female) coming to within a foot of my hand each time. In this way I got the location within about 2 feet, then pushing in among the branches, found the nest about four feet above the ground in the pine with two young in it just getting pin- feathers. This is nest No.46). Find me found in a tree. All thrashers were seen frequently during the rest of the day and there were no signs of Snooty's being driven away. Perhaps terri- toriality is not strictly enforced after the nesting season. August 22nd. About 8 A.M. Brownie was in the glade. The others were not seen and I did not look for them.