his immediate surroundings, as if anticipating Nova's arrival, and peered into the nearby trees at points where there were rustling sounds. A golden-crowned sparrow went up and sat about a foot behind him. B took one casual glance at him and ignored him there- after. He then dived down into the bushes in the glade, but there were no sounds of meeting. He again climbed the old oak and once more began calling. The same song answered from apparently the same distance. It needed about a half hour to induce Nova to come, and several repetitions of descending into the bushes and again climbing the tree and calling. When she did come she first went to the suet mixture in the glade and ate, B watching quietly. She then joined him in the tree and they talked, without however, the harsh greeting sound usually heard on such occasions. B kept his back toward her and did not seem to look at her once. I left them there comfortably perched and looking off over the surrounding country composedly. 10:07. At 9:50 B was heard singing softly from the dormitory tree. I could not see him in the nest until he poked his head over the rim and looked down at me. At this time last year the thrashers were carrying nesting ma- terial about at random. This year they are not doing it. It behavior, would seem that, whatever impulse may have been back of that some instinct the possession of a nest this year has satisfied to at least an extent that makes that action unnecessary. B has a nest now; last December he wanted one. Rhody took two huge helping of meat from within the cage and passed by the mirror numerous times without pausing to look at him- self, in fact it seemed as if he put on a little more speed when passing it. Two of us were watching him and he again demonstrated how his fear of strangers extends to me when they are present by bolting