(361) Throughout the rest of the day both adults were frequently seen together. Snooty was not seen during the entire day, and it looks as if he had gone for good. August 30th. About 8:00 A.M. Brownie came to me in the glade, took one worm, gathered up a billful of soap root fiber, ran to the old oak and climbed up into it, where she was shortly joined by Greenie. After some talk, both were seen tapping about on the horizontal limbs. They they went off in the direction of the berry-patch and paid no further attention to me. I do not think that this means another nest. As these notes recrd, these birds play about with nesting material without reference to season. However, I have learned to expect the unexpected of them. Snooty was not seen. 7:00 P.M. Snooty was not seen during the entire day. Nearly every time I went to the glade both adults were there, or if they were not, soon appeared. When one left the glade the other soon followed. They seemed to be keeping in close touch with each other--more than usual and talked to each other a great deal, also to me. Today their conversa- tional tones and phrases were different from yesterday's, consisting more of high pitched polysyllables than usual and inarticulate gurglings. It also was much lower in volume when the birds were in my immediate much of it vicinity. I doubt if it could be heard ten feet away. I tried to see if I could detect a similarity in phrase evoked by repeating an action which had just caused "comment" by one of the birds. Thus, for example, if Brownie is expecting me to hand her the worm and I give it to Greenie instead, she often utters a tiny, querulous phrase of several syllables with a rising accent on the last one. I have endeavored to determine if it is composed of the same syllables each time and is, presumably therefor something that I am supposed to understand! However I have had no success. Manifestly I need a sound recording apparatus for registering voices qualitatively and a "noise meter" for making loudness determinations