(374) might be over near where Dr. Reynolds is building his house, I went over there. This is about three hundred yards away across a valley and on the other side of a hill facing Dimond Canyon and at about the same elevation, directly south east. It was from that direction that Greenie came this morning. On account of its topography, location and natural wild growth this is an attractive place for birds and the doctor--a bird-lover--is making it more attractive to them by feeding station, etc. Brownie(?). Almost at once I saw a thrasher digging in the ground outside the fence. round 300 ds. away. I called to it. It stopped and looked around in all directions. At that moment a Japanese workman started a huge, crackling brush fire between the bird and myself, so I learnt nothing, as the bird disappeared promptly in the surrounding thicket. }. loses infer- iority com- plex. When I returned to my own place, Greenie was the only thrasher to be seen. He is a different bird when Brownie is away, hopping about me , climbing up into chairs to reach me more easily and singing. He was bursting with song; this time in no way inferior to Brownie's, using phrases many of the same phrases and talking to me confidentially between songs as he pecked about my chair. If it had not been for his eyes and skewed tall-feather I would have thought it was she. B. returns, calling. 12:30 P.M. About 11:40 I went to the glade finding Greenie there. About 5 minutes afterwards scrapping was heard off to the south east. I looked in that direction and a thrasher was running on the street about 120 yards away, approaching rapidly. Greenie had answered the call when I first heard it and continued to call, moving to a small tree at the side of the glade nearest to the approaching thrasher and sitting about 8 feet from my head. Of course it was Brownie coming home. She was undoubtedly the bird I had seen over at Dr. Reynolds'.? On entering the glade her first act was to take a long drink, then a little soft food, then to jump up into my lap without waiting for an invitation and make little wheedling noises. I handed her a worm at a time which she took hungrily, but waited patiently for me to