a foot about to descend upon them, but will reach up to peck at the under side of the sole at anything that attracts their attention there. They are constantly pulling things out of my trouser cuffs and pulling at them. Their attentions have affected my gate given when I am outside the cage, so that I walk around like a thief. If something brushes against my shoes or trousers I halt automatic- ally. They are getting me trained! July 10th. A few minutes after 8 A.M. Rhody was working on nest 8-37-- how much earlier he had been at it I do not know. An hour later he appeared in the upper garden outside this window, searched for another twig, found it and carried it to the nest. At 9:30 he was not there; but when I went to see the thrash- ers, he came from somewhere or other, sat close to the wire waiting patiently for me come out. When I did his response was immediate and together we went to the mousery. He took a mouse from hand, displayed, went off down the lower road, changed his mind (and course), cut across lots to display at a French window in the basement near the nest tree, then carried the mouse up to 8-37. He continued to work at intervals on 8-37 throughout the fore- oon. Most of the afternoon was spent loafing and preening near the loquat. His food today consisted of both meat and mice, the second mouse also being honored with display and taken to 8-37. July 11th and 12th. During this period Rhody continued to devote most of his fore- oons to nest 8-37, though he was seen to visit 9 once and carried one twig to the glass house. His afternoons were spent mostly preening and loafing in the vicinity of the cage. His diet again consisted of mouse and meat; both mice given him being treated with ritual. His tail now consists of feathers of irregular lengths, since he has been shedding his rectrices and new ones are coming in. I saw him lose one in the morning of the 11th. His aversion to yellow-jackets has been shown frequently and commented upon in contrast to the attitude of Archie, Terry and all thrashers of my acquaintance. On the 11th, during one period of back sunning, one of the insects buzzed about his head, was promptly snapped and knocked to the ground where it struggled about near Rhody's feet. Rhody kept side-stepping to avoid it and, at last ran off. We arrived at the cage just as Chiisai was kill- ing and eating one of these insects; thus furnishing a pat ill- ustration of the contrast. Tail feathers are now beginning to appear upon the ground in the cage, so that O and/or C are progressing in their moult. On Okii's forehead a pin-feather or two may now be seen. Both Okii and Chiisai, whom I have been able to observe under more favorable conditions than other thrashers, are seen, very definitely to have feathers arranged as eyebrows. They differ in hue, form, size and direction of axes from those adjacent, form- ing an arc over the eye. The superciliary stripe seems to proceed from their posterior ends. Both are friendly and confiding and appear to be well and hap- y in their cage. Archie, twice now, has perched on me and sung