lively, stretching their wings and legs and arching their backs. They are about as handsome as young alligators, which they resemble in front view more than a little. Without striving for scientific exactitude, they may be considered as 2 weeks old. I doubt if they would have survived the windy period recorded if it had not been for the screen and my making up for the parental reluctance to go after food during that time. It seems certain that the ant menace, if not corrected, would have destroyed them. On the whole, so far, weather conditions have been more favorable than obtain during the regular season. 12:30 (Temp. 72) A heavy wind. 2:30 P.M. A north wind is beginning to sweep over the crest of the spur and the parents are reluctant to leave the glade, where they preen and loaf about. Parents not feeding young. 3:00. Brownie will eat worms for his own account only, it seems. Greenie takes worms, prepares them, runs to the top of the bank at the north side of the glade and turns back to Brownie in the bushes. Once she did this about a dozen times. Meanwhile I see that the young do not lack food. They do not shrink from me and behave toward me as they do to their parents. Take nest to glade and show to parents. Reactions. 3:30. The parents still in the glade. I took the nest down there bodily and showed it to the thrashers. Brownie approached carefully, took worms from me and prepared them on the ground. He wandered about with them in his bill, clearly puzzled about the situation. Finally he jumped up on to the nest and tried to feed them but this was one of the times that he was awkward and did not succeed. He waited a time then made a second unsuccessful effort, finally abandoning the attempt, eating the worms himself. Greenie was near, but remained in the bushes, watching at times with little interest. One of the adults dug up a spider, but instead of giving it to the