(487) 13 days respectively, under weather conditions more favorable for obtained the purpose, I would say, than during any of the other four incubating periods preceding. If they do not hatch, it will be for some cause apart from the weather. October 29th. Rain. Rain during the night. At 7:30 A.M. Brownie, as I approached the old oak, called loudly: You-wheet-clee-clee-clee Rapidly and dropped down to me in the road. He was only slightly damp. I went to the glade, and shortly, Greenie could be heard approaching from the direction of the nest. The two interchanged soft remarks, one of which was the above phrase, then B and G faced each other breast to breast on the same low branch of sage and there was a harsh sibilant sound made by one or both of them. They touched bills and then sep- arat-ed. As neither showed any disposition to return to the nest, I went there and examined the eggs, taking them out of the nest for the first time. Everything was warm and dry. One egg has a small depress- ion near the large end and the edges of this are somewhat rough. The shell is very thin there. Greenie came back and resumed incubation, B staying in the glade. There was a good deal of singing of short phrases before 7 o'clock. 9:27. I went to the glade at 9:20--not thrashers there, but Brownie came running in very quickly and I gave him 3 or 4 worms and went to the nest, hoping that he would follow, which he did, unhurried- ly, going through the glass house, passing close by my ear. When he was about a foot from the nest Greenie stepped out quietly and I put my hand into it, Brownie sitting quietly on the edge with no evident anxiety. One youngster! It was entirely free from the shell and there was none of the shell in the nest. I withdrew my hand, B examin- ed the contents of the nest, with what it pleases me to regard as