(437) go higher, hesitating between my two hands until she decided to leave. Behavior true to form. I told my visitors, that if she behaved true to form, she would react to the stimulus of food by going to the nest and working on it, and so it proved. Night roost. 8:15 P.M. (Temp. 62) My technique is improving--Greenie was spotted at once in his usual roost. Brownie was in hers, about 6 inches above the nest and a little to one side. October 4th. Sunrise, 6:07 A.M. Early songs. 6:00 A.M. As I became conscious of out-door events at 5:40 A.M., I heard the thrashers singing full song. I went out in pajamas and slippers (Temp.62, apparently constant all night). The sound of street- car traffic was very loud. The thrashers were silent. The jays, quail, wren-tits, golden-crowned sparrows (recently arrived), Gambel and/or Nuttall sparrows, wrens were calling or singing according to their kind. Distant cocks and ducks could be heard--no dogs or hens. The thrashers were not at the nest, but one was seen outside the glade digging. I went in and sat down. Both birds came in within a few seconds, Brownie sitting on my bare ankle, Greenie (the first to come) jumping to the chair beside me, both talking a little. Work. When finished they went directly to the nest and to work. About 7:30 I could not find the thrashers and they did not respond to call. At 7:45 Brownie came to me in the glade. After a few worms she gathered a billful of soap-root fibre, part of which she dug out of the ground. Before reaching the nest it was all dropped some- where, perhaps when she called Greenie loudly: Yerk Yerk Pit-yee Pit-yerr Yerr A moment after she reached the nest Greenie carried up a twig and they both became very busy. At this stage at least part of the operation of giving it a bowl shape is performed, not by laying twigs around No objection to scant clothing. Digging soap-root. B's call. Method of shaping interior.