Neo's mate accepts worms. evident solicitude for her welfare, he wanted the worms himself and got nearly all of them; but at last, his mate began to get them though still frightened by my throwing motions. This seems to mark the beginning of her recognition of the inevitable! Until my worm supply gave out and I left, she continued to look for her share, but at a respectful distance. I had "feared" that this new bird and Inver might be identical and hoped to get some light on the matter by just such a happy accident as occurred. I was able to account for all three birds at the same time. The new bird carried no leg band, but I was unable to determine the color of her irides. About 2:30 P.M. I went there again. Both birds were present near the elm and Inver was over in his garden. Neo, for a half-hour, kept in close touch with me, talking incessantly. I tried to get him to take worms from hand; he responded well, but could not bring him- sel f to make the one, last reaching motion of head and bill. His mate would not come out of the bushes, but occasionally answered Neo. It was noted that her voice was high pitched and her "phraseology" like Nova's. (Maybe she is Nova). One of Neo's words was za-ree'-ba the initial consonant uncertain. This was also used by Brownie. There was also another of Brownie's words (which escapes me at the moment). When I left Neo resumed full song and kept it up most of the time until sunset; but at that time he had moved to the west of here, and again came to Julio (without his mate) near the garage. Rhody spent his afternoon on the bank by the orchard and I thought this indicated that he would sleep in the eucalyptus; but at 4 P.M. he began his slow trek toward his old place. His roosting time was not noted. He had a mouse at about 2 P.M. (Sunny, calm). Jan. 6th. (Sunrise 7:26, sunset 5:05). At 7 A.M. Neo began to sing near the oval lawn and moved east, when singing stopped. At 8:35 A.M. (40°) clear, calm, a thrasher near the glade ran away, on seeing me approaching, and hid in the sage patch. This was not like Neo, so I stopped and listened. Neo was talking down on the bank and came out promptly on invitation. The other one remined shy and moved away 40 feet and was digging there when I left. When I got back here, Neo was singing full song again. A much confused thrasher affair. At 9:45 I approached the glade. Full thrasher song was heard just ahead of me. Quail, for some reason fled in all directions at my approach, making alarm calls contrary to their usual behavior; This caused the song to stop. When I reached the sage- patch, two thrashers could be seen down on the bank in Neo's domain. I called. Neo came through the regular passageway to me for worms. Another (I supposed his mate) followed. Then a third thrasher. All three were in a group in the path four feet from me. Neo attacked one of them and there was a first-class fight, with birds being knock- ed over on their backs and feathers flying. All three birds fought. Who fought whom I was unable to see. They went back through the fence and came together 6 feet from me in the honeysuckle, where I could not see them well, and there was much confused conversation in soft, melodious tones. (Thrashers do not appear to make harsh sounds when angry. Oddly enough, as noted before, the harsh haigh-- drawn out long--seems to be reserved for use between mates when meet- ing.) I neglected to record that Neo used it once yesterday when discovering his mate after having lost track of her once; the first