Dec.22nd. The usual early song by Brownie. He and his mate often together during the day. Occasional bursts of full song by B and considerable undersong. Rhody was a little shy of me in an overcoat (which he has not seen before) and would not come when called; however, he waited for me in the vacant lot to the west while I climbed up the bank to him. Later in the morning, when he was in the orchard, he ran from me, although I no longer had on the overcoat. However, I did have on clothes which he may not have seen before. This is the first time for a long time that he has behaved thus, except when a third person was present. From his perch in the old oak, where he retired to sun himself, he looked down upon Brownie taking worms from me in the presence of two pigeons. B does not like the pigeons and is stiff and wooden in their presence and will not approach them nearer than about 3 feet. Dec. 23rd. at B sang loudly before sunrise, but the coming of the first rays he stopped and went off to the south east and could be heard in Reynolds territory, where he stayed all of the morning. At 12:30 he suddenly appeared where I was transplanting a few wild things and then went to his nest where he sang softly at intervals for about an hour, sitting in it. sang 4 P.M. Brownie [illegible] undersong continuously (except for the few seconds required to reward him with worms) from about 1 P.M. to 3:40 P.M. During this time he did not dig or eat anything except my offerings, and stayed practically in one spot at the pine south of the tool house. From about 2:30 to 3 it was a duet; the other performer being a California jay sitting in a ceanothus about 9 feet from Brownie and seeming to be eating the aphid with which this