his suspicion extends to me as well. Oct.27th. A foggy morning did not interfere with thrasher song, and Brownie sang, mostly quarter song, all day. There was never a time during to the day when I could not locate him by sound alone. This is unusual. He was perfectly friendly, but indifferent to offers of worms. He would permit me to sit on the ground 6 to 10 feet away, but would not come for worms (except once) and would not interrupt his song. When- ever he fell to digging, he still sang. His taste ran to angle-worms for some unknown reason, though some he rejected. Whenever he stopped singing, he talked; at such times it invariably developed that Nova was near and she came out boldly in the open and dug with him in my presence a couple of times. Unusual for her. (There is a bare possibility that it may have been another bird--I could not get a very good look at her). I tried several times to get him to whistle his bugle call (Song A) in my presence, but he would not do it until I left him. This happened so often that it appeared intentional. At 3 P.M. Brownie, Nova and Rhody were all in the glade, B keeping up his song in the bushes about 6 to 10 feet in Rhody's rear. I observed this for about 45 minutes, Rhody standing still most of time, appearing to listen to B. He then decided to see what the other birds had to offer in the way of amusement and began to stalk them, ignoring B, but including the quail. He delivered several at- tacks, which I think were sham, for they were never carried to a conclusion and did not cause much alarm; probably only play. Earlier in the day I placed the mirror flat on the ground to note his reaction to it in that position. He must have passed over it once on his way into the cage when I was not there, so I did not observe his first "impressions". However, I was on hand when he made his next visit to the cage; he passed by it with a casual glance at it When he finally came out again, I could tell that he saw something