1478. At this time temperatures were as follows: Inner cage 72. Court 69. Living room of house 85. The wind was not really chilly absolutely, but comparatively. This was long before their proper bed-time, but I took them into th the inner cage and left them near their night roosts. At 7:45 I went out again. C was clinging to the wire near the doors and began to yip at once on seeing me. When I got in he was on top of my head in a few seconds, or just as it occupied approxi- mately the favored point in space. (I had on a hat). A few seconds more and O rushed out of the inner cage, climbed the magpie wire for a good take-off and landed beside him. I took them off. They insisted upon camping on my hand as long as I held it higher than my head; but if I held it lower, transferred to my hat-- as long as I was properly located spatially. They deserted me if I went elsewhere. Chisai, when on my hand but still unsettled, showed that typical thrasher gesture when things are not just right, of reaching down and tapping (one tap at a time) the object upon which it is standing: in this case my hand. It is like the nervous tap a batsman gives the home plate when waiting for the pitcher to deliver the ball. Soon the sandman came when they had definitely settled upon my hand for the night, and I transferred them to the upper annex of the inner cage: "walked" them there as I used to do with Archie and Terry under similar conditions. 9 P.M. They are still where I left them. June 27th. A dull morning, with a strong wind sweeping over the lath-house roof, gave Rhody a further taste of the disadvantages of this lo- cation as a nest site. The wind was so strong that, when he fol- lowed for a mouse, about 8 A.M., he could not follow a straight course across it because the side pressure on his long tail deflect- ed him. Notwithstanding Nature's demonstration of the unsoundness of his selection he continued to work at intervals throughout the day, but spent most of his time loafing in the neighborhood of the cage (and the nest). He also solved the difficulty introduced by my having barred him from entry to the cage (thereby interfering with his game with the magpies) by discovering a new place where he can sit within reach of the wire netting on the west end of the cage and insult and inspect them to his heart's content. This place he used frequently throughout the day. He was given two mice during the day, and twice more he fol- lowed to the shop-yard, apparently merely to view my exhibit, for he wanted nothing. Poni, the west thrasher, again sang in the early morning. The thrush did hatch all four eggs, but a tiny nestling--just a hatched and believed to be a thrush--was found dead at the oval lawn twenty five yards from the nest--at nightfall. The young thrashers were full of pep all day. Okii continued to use apple as his basic food and Chisai hamburger. Neither could be induced to eat liver. Chisai is afraid of the yellowjackets that are attracted by