There appears to be an increasing disposition on the part of B&N to keep in touch with each other now, and B's talk on the lawn seem- ed to be for the purpose of maintaining contact, for whenever N wandered out of sight, B looked her up, although, strangely enough, aside from his initial greeting, he gave the appearance of ignoring h her presence entirely--not looking at her at all. 10:55 A.M. B, wandering about singing half song, has given two more variations on the theme, in one of which he sings the first three notes only, and in the other, the first four. D and E During the afternoon Brownie was often seen on his platform which has not increased in size. He seems to be trying to interest Nova in it. Sept 11th. There was plenty of full song in the early morning hours, coming from different directions. At least two thrashers were con- cerned. About 8:30 A.M. Brownie was sitting quietly on his platform. About 9:30 I happened upon a chase in the orchard, B, of course, being the chaser. It was all to swift for me to identify the other bird. It calmed down and B came to me for worms and then began hunt- ing through the bushes, no doubt for his victim. This seemed to indi- cate that the pursuit had not gone so far as to drive the other bird away, so while B hunted in the vicinity of the glade, I went in the opposite direction and found two thrashers at the oval lawn. One of thwm, Bb, came to me at once, but with fearful glances into the bushes and elsewhere. The other disappeared before I could have a good look, but I think it was Nb. After feeding Bb, I thought it probable that B had decided that there were no other thrashers in the immediate vicinity of his "nest" and had gone there, more or less satisfied with the status quo. The surmise (as to his location) proved cor- rect.