advantages of "rustling his own grub" and having it handed to him! September 28th. Okii remained in and near the cage all day; Chiisai wandered to considerable distances, much of the time out of sight. September 29th. and 30th. (Notes written Oct. 15th.). I spent these days flat on my back, under observation; about 9 P.M. on the 30th., being operated upon for appendicitis. During this period Julio reported upon behavior of Okii and Chiisai, who continued about the place, tame and friendly. October 1st. to 13th. at 3 P.M. For this period notes are based on observations of Julio, who recorded his observations. Quotations are from his notes. "Oct. 1. Okii stay inside of the cage so did not care to come outside, just go as far the door, go back and forth, remain inside until 2:00 and then went in the lath-house and digging, and Chiisai digging around the loquat tree when I called him and offered some worms and took it out from my hand. About half an hour, Okii is inside the cage again eating some of the soft food, when I go to ward him and he came to the door I offered him some worms and he start to sing those little sof song. "And Chiiai came inside too and they both sing. When I come outside C follow me, so Okii stayed in. So I go to continue my work building the wall. About 3 hours I heard a little noise be- hind me I look at it and C there digging. I went back to the cage and see Okii, he was outside, I think he was looking C, when I go back to my work Chiisai still there, I offered him some worms, I toss some worms away from me about 12 feet, he went after them. He went and the lawn and begin to dig. About 5 o'clock they were both inside already. At 7 I went there and see if they are in their roosting place, so there they are. There appear to be some discrepancies in Julio's notes, which he is unable to clear up. However, it appears that, on the 2nd., Okii remained in the cage most of the day, and chiisai, outside. The high-light of this day was the reappearance of Broken- Wing with another thrasher, both singing loudly. Judged by the observation that Brownie remained mated to the same female for more than one season, it is probable that the second bird was Broken-Wing's mate. In which case, since BW is definitely known to be one of the parents of O and C, here was an opportunity to observe the reactions of parents and offspring toward each other after being separated several months. J's notes show that both Chiisai and Okii were attracted by the singing and "went to see what it is". Okii slept in the cage that night and Chiisai elsewhere. On the 3rd. at 6 A.M. Julio heard scrapping and investigated. Broken-Wing, Okii, Chiisai and a fourth thrasher were together. There was some loud singing up to 11 o'clock and a little mild chasing of the young birds by the adults, followed by scrapping, then gradual separation. Okii sang softly for 3 hours "alone by himself" 20 feet from where Julio was working and also came to dig in the gravel with which Julio was mixing concrete. He was in the oak by the living- room chimney at 5:45, came down for worms on call and returned to the tree for the night. Chiisai was seen making for the glade "before dark".