(458) and this behavior on my part, if the birds have kept notes on me, would undoubtedly be found in them under the heading of Unusual Behavior of the Commissary Department. After taking a good look at me, Brownie left for the old oak to sing. The nest was empty, so I came in to enter this record and straighten out the kinks in my neck, for I had been standing almost directly under Greenie (4 feet over my head) looking up at him. From this position I could also see the nest well. It is not necessary to keep quiet with these birds, but, on this occasion, it seemed desirable. This renewal of nesting activity may have been due to the stimulus of food. Resumed nesting 11:08. That was another bad guess, apparently. A short visit apparently not due to food at the nest disclosed both birds gathering material, carrying it up stimulus. and placing it. Some of it looked suspiciously like pine-needles Pine-need- les? from where I stood, but I was not very close. If it was, it is the first noted, About noon--no pine-needles in nest, I think. 2:00 P.M. For some time before and after 12, perhaps an hour altogether, the thrashers were not seen. B. in nest. At 1:30 I went to the nest, finding Brownie sitting in it placid- G. comes and shapes it. Cut(?) feather in B's wing. I went to the glade and Brownie came for worms. There is a flight feather on one of her wings twisted about its principal axis so that the plane of the vane is approximately at right angles to its normal position. The edge thus exposed looks as if it had been cut with a pair of scissors parallel to the shaft. It is not frayed: the barbs appeared to have been sheared off, as their ends are blunt. Something bites Greenie soon came also and just as he was learning Brownie's Greenie. act of sitting on my knee and having worms handed to him, he suddenly jumped up into the air about 2 feet with a squeak, landed at my feet