walked about the roofs of the houses. flew up to the chimneys and the trees singing vociferously. Brownie could be easily distinguish- ed from the others by his well-known phrases. They behaved more like mocking birds than like any thrashers I have noticed before. There was no evident chasing, although there was some stiff-legged walking by one bird along the ridge of a roof in the presence of another bird. One of the birds left behind took up position in a tree overhead and sang with tremendous power for several minutes, intermittently. All of its phrases were unfamiliar. It finally joined the others. After a half hour or so everything became quiet and I went in search of B to see if he had returned to one of his night roost to calm down. However, he was at the oval lawn, very meal- calm and ready for worms. Incidentally he also got very large cut- worms from the lawn-- a valuable service. Whether all this is a territorial act (B inducing other thrashers to go elsewhere and arguing about boundaries) I do not know. Per- haps it has something to do with the young birds of the year or what- not. Archie Since now has no decurved tip on his bill, but a nice hole that he could blow through like a pipe. (if he can blow) he has discovered that he can run his slender, black tongue out through it like a snake or a humming-bird and frequently performs this un- roadrunner-like stunt. It looks as if he had a weakness correspond- ing to the human one of putting the tongue in the vacant space left by a departed tooth. (More anthropomorphism; but what pattern fur- nishes an alternative?) Rhody, today, taking meal-worms from hand one at a time, accepted each one patiently and readily until the last one. This one was so small that it had hidden to the last in the bran. It was about the size of one of R's eyelashes. Instead of taking it at once as he had each of the others, he looked up into my face as if to ask