uttering. Behavior towards each other. About 10:30 both adults were in the glade, both eager for worms and hanging around me, Greenie inclined to hang back and let Brownie get them. Once Greenie said something like "yark" when his mate crowded in ahead of him and got the worm which he had, in his mind, practically already swallowed, and once Brownie said something which might easily be imagined to mean and, in fact sounded some- what like "not for me?" when I handed Greenie a worm over the top of her head. They were very well disposed towards each other and once when Greenie had retired to about 8 feet away and Brownie had two worms she considered giving them to him, ran towards him, but finally changed her mind, possibly as Greenie was not sufficiently responsive. Drinking pigeon fashion. On this occasion Brownie again drank in the manner of the pigeon, that is, immersed her bill deeply into the water, keeping it there and making swallowing movements of the throat, only occasionally raising her bill and then only to the horizontal. Perhaps these birds are not anatomically capable of drinking in this way, but I have watched a pigeon drink from this same dish, the same distance away, and there seemed to be no important difference. Thrashers, however, do not usually drink in this manner. Much depends upon the size of the vessel and the depth of the water. When the water is shallow and/or the vessel is small, they turn their heads on one side. Towhee--increasing ( The female spotted towhee that has the late nestlings is very tameness . strongly tempted to take worms from my hand and will usually pick them from the ground within six inches of it, sometimes within two, but is fearful of the final plunge. This growing tameness is their own doing as a result of their observations of the thrashers). About 5:30 Brownie and Greenie were together in the glade. Greenie appears to be showing less deference to Brownie in the matter of standing aside to allow her to get the lion's share of the worms, although in coming to me, he usually looks to see if she is coming too.