attempt to find the rest of the brood at the time. 6 P.M. Greenie has been seen only once since the first time this morning and Brownie seems to have fed but the one bird, so has had a lot of time to spare. Neither of the others has been seen all day and Greenie has not revealed their location. This is exactly parallel with the happenings in connection with the first brood. The one fed by Brownie has a scratch on its forehead identifying it temporarily. Most of the day was spent by it in a hedge, whence neither it nor its mother objected to its being removed occasionally, fed and carried about, then returned to the hedge. It is now in the glade and must have walked there, since it can not fly, nor could any of the six young thrashers observed here, when they left the nest. I took a film of Brownie coming down the road to hang around me as she has been doing all day. She showed symptoms of having a good dig near me and I photographed her thinking any moment she would begin, but was disappointed. (This was about 2 P.M.) (29⅞ to 36⅛-f/8 1" lens --full sun. About 3:30 as I was strolling about with the camera looking for subjects--more especially hummingbirds--I caught another 3 foot gopher snake. Thinking Brownie might be interested, I took it up to the road near the oval lawn. Soon there was a clucking behind me in the bushes; Brownie came out ready for action. I let the snake go. dwarf She approached it carefully then chased it under a heather pecking it as it fled. She then spent 5 or 10 minutes posturing about the low bush where the snake was hidden--I could see it by lifting a branch-- but I do not think that she was any too keen about driving it out from its refuge. (1" lens--f/8--footage 43½ to 61. Note: The paragraph that follows should precede this one). At about 3 P.M. Brownie came down into the glade where I was sitting and, without coming for worms, planted herself in front of me and had a long and successful sun-fit. Although she was a little close, I fear, for the universal focus lens, I took portions