About 11 A.M. I watched Rhody on the ground six feet from me. He wanted neither worms nor meat, having already visited the cage. He soon spotted a hawk high in the air above. When the hawk disappeared I imitated the road-runner's attitude in looking at a hawk, several times, to see if Rhody take the clue from me and look up himself, but he disregarded my significant posturing, evidently either attaching no importance to it or else not associating it with hawks. Curiously enough, while engaged in this procedure, he suddenly crouched flat upon the ground and looked fixedly behind me; I turned and there was a real hawk sitting forty feet from me on a low limb of an oak. R did not seem much concerned, as he stood up in a few seconds and did not retreat. The hawk flew past us about 20 feet away. R stepped under a bush quickly, but did not freeze or appear to look for the hawk. I spent 15 minutes looking for the intruder with a gun unsuccessfully. On returning R was still in the same place, but taking the affair philosophically; in fact appeared to doze at intervals with closed eyes as if entirely off his guard. Nevertheless, I noticed that when I emitted a puff of smoke during one of his "shut-eye" periods he aroused at once. When he dozes off, only the lower lid moves. It creeps up very slowly until the eye is covered by it. March 21st. 3" eggs after 15 days incubation. 3:00 P.M. There were three eggs in the thrasher just now; ascertained by feeling in the nest as B took over from N. This has completed the fifteenth day of incubation. If the incubation period is the same as with the first brood of last year there should be a youngster in the nest tomorrow morning. Very little song by B so far today, though there may have been some not heard by me.