(396) down directly towards me practically in straight lines, with only one slight swerve to avoid a branch in the old oak. They moved their wings only in starting and in stopping. Brownie landed in a baccharis bush about 8 feet in front of me, dropped to the ground and came to me at once. Greenie's landing was on the ground about 6 feet from me. Both began talking in little reedy whines and gurgling sounds. (At this moment a fox sparrow came out of the bushes and ate from the dish 6 feet in front of me--the first of the season) When the thrasher had enough worms, they went out of the glade toward the dormitory tree. After a minute or two, I went there. Brownie was pecking at twigs just above her roosting place and making new soft sounds. The nesting instinct seems strong in these birds, cropping out constantly. Greenie, I did not locate. This roosting place will be untenable in strong northerly winds, or even moderate ones as the tree is on top of the ridge. While Brownie was there the wind was strong enough to ruffle her feathers. At 8:45 she was not there, but as I went along the road between the berry patch and the glade looking up into the trees, a soft call was heard and Brownie was looking at me from under a bush about 6 feet away on top of the bank. Greenie was down in the glade digging. Brownie's talk as she accepted my offer of a worm was again different from any I recall. (Autumn birds)( This is not intended as a record of all birds seen, but as in preceding notes, some observations will be recorded. It is now one week to the Autumnal Equinox. Birds are changing about. Yesterday a warbler of some kind, a vireo--unidentified and a wood- pecker observed for about ten minutes, which answers the description of the Nuttall. It was in the old oak in the glade working on and under the horizontal limbs, at times not more than about 9 feet from me. I saw every portion of its exterior. The brown towhees tried to drive it away without success. A Nuttall sparrow followed it from limb to limb for a time and seemed only curious. (I wonder if it was trying to find out why the other radically different bird is also called Nuttall?) 5:30 Both thrashers have appeared every time today that I have looked for them. They are keeping pretty well together.