Rhody also uses felted azalea roots. A curious trait. Another curious trait. Rhody's take-off. I also put with them three piles of the felted, fibrous roots of the azalea containing some earth and peat. Rhody used all of this in his nest. This is the first nest to which I have seen him carry any considerable quantity of material of this nature, that is, material suitable for lining and binding. A curious trait: He may not go near the nest for hours, and then he spots some tuft of soft stuff--perhaps when a hundred or more yards away from the nest--and nothing will do but he must carry that all the way to the nest and perhaps forgot all about doing more work until the next day. As a matter of fact, he does not work much on the structure; but at present all of it is lining. Another curious trait: While he likes to sit in this nest at any hour of the day, often for long periods, he is most apt to be found there (at present) an hour or so before roosting time. He may stay there until 6:15 P.M. and then he deserts this place that he finds so comfortable and goes to his old house to sleep for the night If the new house is good enough to build a nest in and rest in indefinitely, why is it not good enough to sleep in? This was also a period of much attention to the magpies and increasing tendency to wander into portions of the grounds (including the immediate vicinity of the house) not much frequented by him. March 28th. Occasional clouds and a little colder. Thrashers incubated constantly, Neo, when on the nest, oc- casionally calling for relief. Once again, when he came off duty, I fed him well and he drank deeply. After sunning and stretching for a few minutes he relieved N2 at the nest, having been off just 12½ minutes. The first egg was laid on the morning of the fourteenth, so incubation of that egg has proceeded 14 days. Unless the eggs are infertile or the irregularities noted in incubation during the first day or two have had an adverse effect, there should be results by tomorrow. Rhody was not seen to carry material to his nest at all, although he visited it several times and sat in it for prolonged periods. He was given a mouse at about 8 A.M. and, to my surprise, appeared at the window of this room about 9 A.M. and wanted another, which was given him. He later ate his meat in the cage. This was a day of much preoccupation with the magpies. Mar. 29th. Bright and clear, but chilly except in the sun, in the morn- ing. Rhody had his first mouse at 8:15 A.M. and started his round at 10:20 A.M. At 10:10 A.M., at change of shift, it was seen that there were still three eggs in the thrasher nest. As N2 approached to take over, Neo, who had been calling impatiently with musical phrases differing from those used yesterday, left the nest before her arrival, but she soon took charge. N2 is more shy of me than she has been. Rhody was seen to add material to his nest once. He used a tuft of azalea roots to which he added leaves of the composite weed of this year's growth, which I had placed in the sun so that they were withered.