fairy chorus when grub is in prospect and much prefers to have it pushed down his gullet by B rather than to dig for it himself. He can fly like a professional and his digging technique is perfect in appearance, though I doubt whether it is very effective. He knows that human beings are in some way to be associated with food and is ready to do his part in a taming process, but he is doomed to be chased away by his parents. B has, once or twice, shown some impatience with him and exacts commision on food supplies now passing through his "hands", instead of delivering them intact. Cat after young- ster? At about noon, as I passed the glade, the Persian cat (See notes Apr.26) ran out and fled. Returning to the glade, I found the little thrasher there, out in the open on the ground. He must have had a narrow escape. He was immediately interested and, although B was not with him to set the example, ran directly to me to pick up all worms tossed to him. (Intermittent rain). R drinking again. R looks like Gloomy Gus. An effective cure. At about 3 P.M. Rhody was noted drinking at the glade, though this is anything but a thirsty day. He wanted neither meat nor worms and sat on the ground gloomily looking like a large, ragged pine cone, pretending not to see me 6 feet away. I got a live mouse, reserved for his special benefit, released it near him. It ran off at high speed. Rhody immediately became a sleek, much interested bird and chased it for forty feet where it took refuge in a crack in a loose wall of stone. R planted himself facing the wall, look- ing bored again. Soon the mouse jumped out of the wall straight through the air toward Rhody, and into R's mouth. R did not have to move his head at all! R killed the mouse (as I thought) and began his standard side tactics with living prey, walking about with a glance now and then at the victim. However, this time, he was too careless and the mouse darted under the trees where R was unable to find him again, abandoning the search to sun his back and think things over. Mouse commits suicide. This sounds like a lie! R over con- fident.