1529 Oct. 19th. A quiet morning for the thrashers. It was not until 11:30 A.M., when I went to look up Rhody, that thrashers appeared and sang at this place. A few distant scrips had been heard earlier off to the south. At 11:30 I went to the wall overlooking the west lot and called Rhody. In a few minutes he rattled boomed repeatedly some distance away. I shifted position so as to see all of the south side of the west lot (Map 1313A). He was seen near the S.W. corner gliding amongst the bushes and peering with head close to the ground in all directions. More calling brought him to me over the fence, where he seemed more interested in observing my efforts to attract a thrasher that had come out of the west lot almost simultaneously and sat in a tree over my head. (The effort failed and the thrasher-unidentified--left for the Scamells'). I now moved off 25 yards and stopped. Rhody followed to my feet. I dropped him worms. Suddenly for no apparent reason, he sailed back over the fence in a curving glide through the trees. The impression I gained was that, at the time I called him, he had been interested in thrashers and jays in the brush, and now went back to look over the field again. I went and got a mouse and, on returning, showed it at the top of the fence. R came at once, flew up to the fence, and took it from hand, returning at once to the brush. Usually he loses interest in me after having a mouse, so I was surprised to see him come back over the fence and walk to the base of the wall, on top of which I now stood, and loiter about near me but observing every- thng near at hand, apparently with some special interest. (There were still jays and thrashers back in the thicket). I now showed him the red box in which I had carried the mouse and he flew up to me and followed along the driveway, diverging at the oval lawn to investigate (as it seemed) the two thrashers that were now (12 m) singing in the ironwood there. This finished, he joined me, but would follow no farther than the pine tree at the new rhododendron moraine by the driveway near the tool-house. Here he stuck and refused, mice, meat and worms. Why did he follow me there if he wanted nothing from me? Until 2:45 P.M., except when (1:30) he followed to the shop for a mouse, he did not move over ten feet from the point where he had first stopped. There he rested on the ground and in a ceano- thus, even returning to the same place after eating the mouse. About 3 o'clock he wandered off to the west. The thrashers at the oval law, after singing for a few minutes longer, were not heard again, and as I was concentrating on Rhody, no attempt was made to identify them. They probably were BW and LB (Longbill). Oct. 20th. Much early thrasher song to the east and south, ceasing ab- ruptly about 8 A.M. At 8:30 A.M. I called Rhody three times at the west fence, and waited quietly. In a few minutes he appeared out of the brush, peering about, head held low. I started for the mousery followed by him. He was very lively and had to make several side trips to skylark through the bushes along the way where there were birds, but came all the way for his mouse.