me, for which he came as freely and familiarly as Brownie. The rest of the food supply was from the food dish and from holes dug in the glade. Some of these holes he lay in for a time as previously noted. No.4 discovered the drinking vessel and, from his actions, it seemed to be a new experience. The water appeared to fascinate him. Greenie made a large number of trips carrying food from a very shallow earthen-ware saucer. When this was nearly empty he could get but a grain or two of soft food at a time. He surprised me by lifting it up by one edge and pulling it to a place where one side would re- main permanently higher than the other, causing all of the food to pile up at one side where he was then able to get a larger mouthful by reason of the greater depth of food into which he could insert his bill. He acted upon this immediately and the action certainly looked to be deliberately intended to bring about the result actually obtained. While thrashers are constantly turning things over to look underneath them, there was no indication that such was the purpose in this in- stance, because he did not look at the place uncovered and went at the food as soon as it was shifted into one pile. About 6:10 I could see no thrashers in the glade from the outside. I called and the bird that came out was Greenie, who took worms into the bushes in the glade. While supplying him, a short phrase thrasher was heard in a tree behind me to the north of the glade. It was Brownie; but she seemed engrossed in something over her head . Nothing unusual could be seen there. I went and stood under the tree and she came down and got a bill full of worms , hesitated as if uncertain what to do with them, then started toward the berry patch. (No. 4 was down in the glade.) She then turned back, and carried them up into the tree; but she came down with them shortly, paused to look about in various directions as if trying to get her bearings, then carried them down into the glade, no doubt giving them to No. 4.