July 8th. About 9 A.M. word was received from Dr. Reynolds that four thrashers in addition to Pat were at his place. After seeing that Brownie was on the job here, I went over and there were still three in sight and hearing. One of these came to about 20 feet from the dividing wire fence to the north and I went slowly toward him talking. He gradually approached the fence. I went to a point about 8 feet from it and tossed him a meal worm, which he ran toward me, and took fearlessly. I tossed him others and he made "frantic" efforts to get through the wire at ground level to get on my side, and reached through for those that fell short. He was a fully grown bird, but had the brownish olive eye-color of Greenie and the markings of Brownie. He therefore, was neither Brownie nor Nova (nor Greenie). He may have been one of B&G's offspring that I tamed last year, but, in any case, the incident illustrates further the confiding nature of these birds once again. 3 P.M. Brownie has not been seen to feed Nb since the incident reported, but attends to Bb faithfully. He now considers that soft-food, moistened, is in order. He is having an easy time and, as a consequence, is interesting to watch. He has been repeating his intensive scratching, preening and sunning. Today he spreads out both wings, one on the ground for support, and on this one lays his head with open beak. Earlier in the day the road-runner would not take a sparrow in the presence of others. He is frightened when more than one person is near. His flight feathers are fully restored, but his wing coverts still show the cut ends. No pellets have been found as a result of his bolting the sparrow the other day. The magpies' new tail feathers are growing fast, but they are getting shabbier otherwise. The smaller one is inclined to pick on Rhody. Once the larger one was seen acting as if to prevent this. R.R. Magpies