have (382) either bird might easily thought that there was but one performer present. I then went to the glade, both birds coming soon. Brownie caught sight of the soap-root fiber which I had been showing my visitors yesterday and proceeded to gather it up carefully with little whines and mewings. She considered taking it up into a tree, but finally dropped it. Although she had had only one or two worms, the incident of the fiber seemed to take her mind off of food entirely and she climbed up into the branches where the first nest had been built, where she rustled about for a short time then disappeared toward the berry patch, soon followed by Greenie. The nest-building instinct seems never to be entirely submerged in these birds, especially in Brownie. Now that Greenie is coming to the front as the loud singer and Brownie is acting more domestically, Brownie regains her position in my confused mental state as "she" and Greenie, perforce, "rebecomes" (If there is no such word, there should be) the male until both change about. again. At 9:30 when I went to the glade, both birds appeared quickly from the bushes. Brownie's talk had as its base the "hen motive", somewhat altered, consisting mostly of tsick-a-daw, tsick-a-derro with plenty of filling in between. She also "called the dog", with a low melodious whistle "whee'-oo-whee'-oo-whe-oo" and answered it herself with a surpris- ingly deep toned "row-row-row". All this while jumping up for worms or playing about my feet. She then retired to the favored sage branch and became drowsy. The upper lid could be seen slowly descending to meet the lower. She then moved to the other favored branch to the left and practised undersong until Greenie, who had been digging indus- triously 10 feet to my left, suddenly asserted himself, ran at her with a snarl, drove her off two or three feet and went back to his same digging operation. Brownie resumed her undersong on the ground, but soon rushed at Greenie, aimed a peck at him and took possession of his excavation (a frequent occurrence) turning her back on him. He Tail pull-then reached forward and pulled the end of her tail without her retali- ing,