(308) parents), but when it was seen that this bird was not a young thrasher, Greenie kept on running rapidly, still carrying the worm I think, for a hundred and fifty feet further until he disappeared in a line of trees along the north boundary. There he began to "scrip" and, when I approached, came out with no worm and commenced digging. It looked as if he might have had another youngster there, but I doubt it. The trees and the ground under them, however, were "full" of quail of all ages as well as towhees, plainly visible from a distance, so perhaps he might have thought to find one of his own offspring amongst them. On being disappointed, he probably swallowed the worm himself. About 11:30 I went to the glade. Snooty was there all alone. Soon Brownie came up behind my chair--I could hear her walking through the leaves on the ground before turning to look. When she saw Snooty she ignored him, but when he ran toward her confidently, she rushed at him, knocked him flat on his back with feet in the air, trampled on him and made threatening pecking gestures, then came to me for worms all of which she ate herself. Snooty clearly did not understand what the attack meant. He did not appear at all frightened and did not retreat. I believe this was actually the first attack because he showed no fear of her when she threatened him a second time, but the third time he assumed a defensive attitude, crouching low with bill open and watching Brownie warily. I had hoped that Greenie would show up so that I could see which side of the fence he would take; but he came only when a quail's alarm note was sounded at the other side of the glade. This note is usually ignored by the thrashers, but both Brownie and Snooty flew up into the tree under which I was sitting and Greenie also flew into the same tree from the opposite direction at almost the same instant, paused a moment, then entered the bushes from which the alarm sounded. While there he scripped a few times, and all was quiet. Brownie and Snooty continued to sit in the tree about four feet apart. Snooty comfortably, as he had just had some worms