did not sing, visited his nest rarely, was often with the magpies and kept himself pretty well informed of my goings and comings, looking me up when he felt like a mouse in case I failed to take the ini- tiative. Once, when I was calling the thrashers, he appeared sud- denly from nowhere and placed himself in position to catch worms toss to him. This now a time of comparatively little thrasher song, al- though Neo still goes off to the N.E. occasionally, presumably to exchange songs with Inver. Brokenwing is also singing much less, although I hear him occasionally. After a dry spell, rain began falling slightly at 5 P.M. Apr. 4th. (Sunrise 5:54, sunset 6:34). Rainy morning. I did not go out to look up the birds until about 11 A.M. I found Rhody very sensibly ensconced in his house- nest in the peppermint gum tree and not hungry enough to pay much attention to me. Both thrashers in nest, I found Neo and N2 both in the nest at the same time giving a double dose of calories to the chicks, offsetting the effect of direct exposure to a persistent breeze from the south (52°), Neo on top. Curiously this is exactly the attitude assumed by Brownie and Greenie once in similar weather (as recorded in these notes) when Greenie in the nest called loudly and B came and hovered her. White-throated sparrow still here. This bird is now just outside the window and has been seen every day since his presence was first noted. He feeds not only at this station but at all the others patronized by the other crowned sparrows. I have never seen more than one at a time. Rhody takes cover to avoid rain. It continued to rain all of the afternoon--sometimes very hard. At 11:30 Rhody was in his shelter under the old oak and was given a mouse, which he ate there. He was not seen to leave this shelter for about 4 hours, although he must have gone to the cage once for meat. April 5th. to 10th., incl. The morning of the 5th. dawned fair, and there has been no rain during this six day period. The young thrashers, through the medium of their two parents, were given a huge feed of meal-worms early on the 5th., as compensation for the slender fare which I suppose they received on the 4th. During this period there was an increasing concern shown by N2 at my presence near the nest, although she continued to get worms from me notwithstanding, even when objecting to my presence. An odd feature of these occasions was Neo's reaction toward his mate's alarm calls. He would come to me for worms as usual, but stretch to his full height and look in different directions in an endeavor to locate the cause of the alarm; but never once at me, as if taking me for granted and not suspecting that I was at the bottom of it all. Neo has never shown any alarm on finding me at the nest, and curiously, N2 when in the nest, does not seem to resent my presence. Neo continued to be the best provid of food, perhaps because he comes to me with perfect freedom and gets more meal-worms as a consequence. (He even looks me up now). N2 does much more dig- ging than Neo and evidences of her work are numerous.