song. He then climbed into an oak, sitting inside of it, and continued his undersong. I went to listen to him, as the position and the undersong in such a position were unusual. I stood in the road about 8 feet from him and he continued very earnestly, looking down at me from time to time. For the first time he imitated very exactly the long, drawn-out call of the Varied Thrush, interpolating it frequently amongst his other phrases. A combination often heard was this call, followed by parra-keet, parra-keet, ca'-daw, or, sometimes, ca-daw-cut. The whistled phrase which can be fairly accurately set down in musical notation (see bottom of p.474) was frequently introduced, and, sometimes the last three notes of it only. He "called the dog" several times, imitated the sparrow-hawk, jay and flicker and used many of the 80 or 100 phrases of his own, previously noted. The song was practically continuous for about 20 minutes. I tried, by talking, whistling, etc. to incite him to greater efforts. Finally he worked his way out toward me, dived over my shoulder to the road behind me and came for worms, retiring after each one to the ground beneath a hedge, 4 to 6 feet from me, and continued singing. Possibly he got tired of having me nagging him, for suddenly he stepped out into the road, and, for a few seconds, sang full voiced with astonishing power. I was really hoping that he would sing full-song, but did not expect that he would do it while sitting on the ground, which is, unless my memory is at fault, without precedent. If this was intended as a call for Greenie, it did not work. However, it brought the wren immediately to get his share of the worms. B then shut up like a clam and fell to digging nearby. It is impossible to forecast what these thrashers will do under any given set of conditions. In a period of half an hour or so, Brownie did several unexpected things.