ed at nest 4-36, being quite bold in the presence of a visitor. He remained about until time to go to roost. I looked him up at 5:30 P.M. at the latter place and found him, to my surprise, as it was mild and windless (60 deg.) stowed away in his house with only head and bill showing. Curious that he should select this place at a time when no protection from the elements was needed. Brownie, on my return at 11:30, was found sitting in the nest he had started in the old oak. (So he, at least, has not defi- nitely abandoned it). Nova was nearby and was seen to pick up and carry off soap-root fibres (to the Robinsons'? ) so there ap- ppears to be some lack of unanimity in the thrasher family still. Brownie was very friendly, slipping out of the nest to get worms from the visitor as well as myself, several times. When I went to look up Rhody in his roost, Brownie was sing- ing not far away. March 1st. At 8:15 A.M. Rhody was not in the vicinity of the cage, nor was he in his roost; but when I returned to the cage, he was posed solemnly on a rock close to the wire, puffed up and making no greeting. He wanted no mice and appeared interested in nothing. R5 was up in the upper annex quietly sunning. Rhody became mildly interested when I went into the cage and dangled a mouse on the inside not far from his nose. He at last condescended to come in and take it, but without enthusiasm. It finally occurred to him to go into the inner cage and look up R5. He made no display until reached a point below that bird; he then bowed, hrooed and so forth, and went up to him; crowded up against his side and offered the mouse as before. R5, again, whined, but refused it and moved to a roost two feet away, not hastily. R had not pecked him and there was no excitement. R now ate the mouse himself and remained in the annex while R5 came out. He now wanted to get out. Once he returned to the inner cage and R made a mild threat at him and he came out again. In about 10 minutes R came out, made another bluff at R5, who went back to the inner cage, R not following. R now remained quietly stand- ing on the ground. (He could have gone out, as the door was open). He now saw the magpies, brightened up, and for the next ten min- utes or so went back to his old tactics of making feints at them and lying on the arm-chair shelf waiting for one of them to vent- ure near enough so that he could pop out at him. When tired of this, he went out to sit quietly under the trees. (9:20 A.M.). At 10 A.M. I found him lying in nest 2-36 and was greeted with whines. At 11 he was back at the cage for a session with R5 which lasted until about 11:30, when he disappeared. During this half hour he was not very active, mostly just watching R5 and shifting from place to place to keep him in view: R5 not being disturbed. Once he went half way up to nest 4-36 to eject towhees. At 1:10 he was seen on the ground near 2-36 with a long alli- gator lizard, bowing and hrooing. He took it up to the nest and cried plaintively when I reached him, with the lizard still in his bill. (All he lacked was "his pocket handerchief to hide his streaming eyes").