can retire at any time to his private apartment in the dormitory tree whenever he needs quiet. If Greenie were still here, I would predict another nest this year.with some confidence. As it is, I shall not be surprised if the birds build again. Rhody ate three mice today, presented by the Reynolds family establishment , and certainly as much meat besides. As the mice are swallowed head foremost and endwise, their tails seem to tickle his "tonsils" for a few minutes after there is nothing to be seen of them. The Reynolds pheasant finally walked into the skunk-cat trap and was caught. I heard him struggling violently in it, but strangely enough he calmed down completely when I went there and picked up trap and all. when released at his original home he walked out calmly, with no sign of panic, and began looking for food within 3 feet of the trap. September 1st. The usual(at this season) early morning singing. About 9 A.M. Brownie, who was now calling from the top of the old oak, came down for worms. After this he went to his night roost and sang full song for a short time, then sat on the wind-screen still singing and calling. He then dropped to the ground, ran by me where I was sitting by the magpie cage and climbed the Sparrow-hawk pine. Meanwhile another thrasher had answered his first summons and gone to B's night roost, but finding him not there, and hearing him singing with "everything wide open", followed to the pine. Here B fairly excelled himself and soon had four more thrashers in the same tree, coming from various directions. For a time three thrashers were singing full voice simultaneously from this same tree. B kept up his song (which, now at 9:45, is still ringing out clearly from the same place) and other thrashers came and went, some pausing to sing in an acacia 15 feet away. When I left to make this note, Nova (I think) was sitting about 2 feet below him "bubbling". The curious thing about this is that B apparently pays no attention to the other birds and other kinds of birds, brown towhees and humming