March 11th. 4:15 P.M. Less than the usual amount of thrasher song, in fact very little. B when off duty has been rather quiet. There is also little sub-song now. R continues to call at intervals from high places as well as from the ground in the open field, also with a lizard's tail in his bill. At 2 P.M. I found him "resting". When I approached he began to look about his feet as if to see whether I had tossed a worm that he had overlooked. However, this time, he picked up the squirming tail of an alligator lizard, probably having disposed of the rest of the animal before my arrival, since he was not hungry. He wandered off with the tail, showing no disposition to eat it. I watched until I got tired and quit. One hour and a half after- he picked it up, he suddenly appeared at the oval lawn where I was sitting still carrying the precious tail. After a few minutes he trotted off along the driveway in the general direction of the cage still with the 6 or 8 inch tail. I followed a few minutes later to see if he would repeat his performance of Feb.17th. with the small lizard, but was too late as he had already accomplished whatever he had intended and was now staring at the rail with no lizard tail to be seen. A few minutes later he went in for more meat and presumably had swallowed the tail as an appetizer. March 12th. Thrasher song in "all" directions in the morning before sunrise, but little during the day. Incubation proceeding regularly. B and N very quiet. Rhody is calling more persistently now and wandering about the place and its immediate surroundings, calling and listening. He is now singing more frequently in the afternoons than before. Pat (Little Brownie) gradually wandered away from the Reynolds place just about the same time as the strange thrasher was begin-