1670. During the day there had been frequent song in that vicinity from more than one thrasher and Neo, more than once, was identified as one of the performers. There were no signs of combats. April 30th. (Sunrise 5:16, sunset 6:59). Rain during the night. Thrasher song at 5:30 A.M. About 7:30 A.M. all four thrashers were again back in their home area and Rhody had been given a mouse. About 8:30 the thrasher scene had shifted to the tree 8 area again and I could find none at their old haunts. Neo came out on call and got worms for his young. About 9:30 I went into the brush around tree 8 and Neo, proved tame in that environment, taking worms to one bird, but searching, apparently for the other one, ineffectively as he climbed about the bushes and trees, making his blue-bird call and uttering snatches of song for several minutes before finally taking the worms to the bird he had just fed. It was noted that he several times approached closely a brown towhee nest in tree 8 as if drawn to it by his feeding urge; but he turned back each time when one of the adults scolded. (One was in the nest). About 10 A.M. I found him back in the nest area. When furnished with worms he fed one youngster there. (Returned or had he never left?). Neo was shortly back again in the tree 8 Area, again feeding one chick.; N2 present, as she had been all morning, but shy. I went back to the sage patch and one chick was still there. He is fairly self-reliant, flies, runs, digs and takes worms tossed to him like an adult. At 1:30 he was still the sole occupant of the nest area and was given meal-worms and their pupae; the latter are less attractive to him than the worms and he has more difficulty in disposing of them. 6:05 P.M. Neo was responsive to call near tree 8 each of the three times I called there after 1:30 P.M. and took worms for the youngster in the brush. The lone one in the sage-home area responded an equal number of times in the same period. No other thrasher was seen to feed him during the day and he made no calls. At 5:40 I went out to check up on the situation and found all thrashers in their home area. Neo answered vocally when I whistled, came, but ate the suet-seed "pudding" which is kept there, then carried a piece through the fence to a chick outside. As he went through the hole, the other chick came out of the sage, saw me, came at once and was given a good feed of worms. I went to the new nest, N2 was sitting in it quietly. I turned toward the tool-house and met Rhody face to face in the path. He turned and followed, but merely admired my exhibit of mice and left for his gum-tree house, which he entered at 5:55, after merely glancing at one of the young thrashers on the ground within a couple of yards of him. Neo was now seen in the path near the new nest. On call he ran to me carrying soap-root fibre, which he dropped and took worms for one of the chicks. At 5:58 N2 was still in the nest. This is the first time she has been seen in it. Since Neo has not been seen to add anything to the nest for several days, or even visit it, his sudden interest in lining material suggests that N2's presence in it, constitutes acceptance of it and furnished the stimulus that caused him to act as he did. Neo was heard singing in the direction of the nest until nearly 7 o'clock. Cloudy, chilly all day.