G's mimicry. The imitations in Greenie's performance just heard were those of the flicker, the jay and the domestic hen, all soft and far away. The hen was rendered as ker-dor-kut . The flicker as pee-yulk and yay-cup . These phrases were usually uttered twice. G's "words" Other phrases were: Tor-keeta; tor-keety; tor-kee yer; purr'ty; puro-ee-ear; pit-pur-reela; tora-keeta; pit-yurky; too-wheaty; wot-cheer; quee'lick; wet-churr'; wait, wait; cherr-keet'; pit-yor-kit; broke-er-r~ar; yurki-yurki-yurki; perfect-perfect; yurp; yurrick-klee-klee -klee; fee-male; byoo-ick. Most phrases were repeated, that is uttered twice in succession; some three times. In between recognizable phrases were innumerable warbles, trills, throaty gurgles and an almost innumerable variety of sounds. As a rough guess, I would say that the articulated sounds--or perhaps better, the "words"--were but a small fraction of the whole. Brownie returns At 11:00 I returned to the glade. An invisible thrasher was there. Soon the missing Brownie came running in from the north and the hidden bird, Greenie, ran out to meet her, evidently glad to see her, but scolding with wide open bill. Brownie answered and they talked a little. Greenie ran to me for a worm, Brownie stretched to her full height and scanned the distant horizon, then ran to me quickly, jumped up to my ankle resting on my knee and sat there looking at me, making little blue-bird sounds (The call used when approaching the nest) and micro- scopic, high-pitched peeps and trills. She patiently waited for each worm as I dug it out of the bran, digging into my ankle with her claws to preserve her balance as she reached for each worm, and behaving with great restraint and decorum. When, however, the last worm was gone, as I thought, and made no more offers, she jumped over, found the only worm there was instantly, threw out all the hand bran and took off with a vigorous push. The two birds then loitered about the glade companion- ably, using the blue-bird pew mostly.