"Impulse" continues. At 10:25 the thrashers were still busy at Sta. C, but as soon as I appeared at the glade, Brownie thrust his head out through the leaves at the "nest", took a good look at me, and came for more worms, soon followed by his mate, both talking volubly. They then gathered a new supply of nesting material, but, it will be noted that the preceding impulse had not subsided. Screen at C I fastened a screen arrangement near C similar to that placed at the site of old No. 5. In the afternoon Mr. Hopkins called to see the thrashers. Both birds came, Greenie hovering about the outskirts, but B after some hesitation on account of the visitor who sat beside me, jumped to my knee as usual. G's talk. He talked a little. G kept repeating the phrase gurkit, gurkit. Neither showed signs of nesting activity. Feb. 5th. 11:15 A.M. (Temp. 57, variable breeze; looks like rain). B&G have been here all of the morning, digging on the slope above the orchard a large part of the time, rolling down stones and dry clods. B's talk. B's talk was again new, at least to my perception, base on a low pitched moaning sound followed by higher pitched interrogatory syllables. They were afraid of open spaces--hawk signs. There were two or three minor alarms while I was with them in the glade, that sent them scuttling into the bushes. B did not even like to cross the small open space in the glade at first, and then to reach me kept carefully inside the bushes until he got as near as he could without exposing himself, then flew directly to my knee contrary to his usual habit. After he judged that there was no further cause for alarm, he inspected Sta. C again, but ignored my handiwork a foot or so away. G's eye-stripe. G's superciliary stripe is still more conspicuous than B's and there is no evident change in eye color. At 5 P.M. Brownie was in his night quarters--unusually early.