her head (395) and turning heard to look in the direction of Greenie, who, by this time was scrapping loudly up in the old oak. A bird landed just behind my shoulder on top of a lath shelter against which I was lean- ing and ran across it with patterting feet--Greenie. He dropped to the ground peered up through the branches at his mate and picked up a twig, I looked at her also and saw that she was carefully placing a loose twig as if building a nest about ten feet above the ground and about 6 feet south of her roosting place). (She had not been sit- ting in her roosting place). Greenie dropped his twig and climbed up to her, perching directly over her. They then discussed matters and I came in to write this note. (Shade temperature 76 degrees F.) What it is all about, I do not know. 1:45. I did not go out again until about t 1:35. I went directly to the dormitory. Brownie was sitting motionless on her night perch; Greenie ditto at the place where Brownie had been arranging the twig. ?????? At 2 both birds had left. On going to the glade, Brownie soon came in from the west and Greenie a little later from the opposite side. The rest of the afternoon they took it easy most of the time. Night roost. At 6:15 Brownie was on her same twig in the dormitory, but I could not find her mate. Early song. Sept. 16. The thrashers sang beautifully up to about 8 A.M. I went to the glade just as they were finishing. Whsitting and calling evoked no response and I had about decided that they had gone to the Reynolds territory when I saw them both sitting near the top of the sparrow-hawk pine about 100 feet from my chair in the glade. (A few bluebirds were heard and seen flying overhead). First blue- birds. Long volplane. I called and whistled and they began to get restless, turning their heads from side to side, then first one and the other sailed