1695 June 28th. Rhody and Quail. At 11:30 A.M. Rhody, who had apparently been in his house most of the morning, accepted my invitation to come down and accom- pany me to the tool-house. While waiting for me to make good my promise, he rattle-boed loudly once. When he went off with the mous toward the cage two quail rushed at him with loud alarm calls, mo- mentarily startling him; however, he recovered his equilibrium and continued his march, bowing, tail-wagging and hrooing, toward the cage without reference to the quail, who retreated before him. The mouse was carried to his house, and there he sang with it in his bill, for more than 15 minutes, ceasing--as is his present habit--after eating the mouse. He sang perhaps 30 times. Basically his song was the standard succession of coos and coo-coos, ranging in number from three to ten; but there was considerable variation in pitch, volume and tempo-- more than I recall having noticed before. I forgot to record in its proper place that, when I invited him to come down, he was just adding a tuft of something soft to the inside of his nest. June 29th. and 30th. No changes were noted in thrasher or road-runner recent be- havior. Rhody again sang with a mouse in his nest and was also seen adding more lining. July 1st. Young thrasher leaves nest. The young thrasher left the nest this morning. His parents seem to have escorted him away from the place almost immediately; since early morning jot a thrasher has been seen or heard here. Allen Hummer hatches an egg. Incubation period? About 9 A.M. I looked in the hummer's nest for the first time today. There was at least one chick. I saw none yes- terday. The first egg was laid on the 13th., the second on the 15th. Dawson says that, counting from the laying of the second egg, in- cubation lasts 12 days. On this basis, one should have hatched on the 27th. June. Rhody again sang in the nest with his mouse after a long period of bowing and hrooing with tail-wagging at many places, in- cluding the mirror. His trick of "wahnking" when approaching Julio, mentioned in these notes some weeks ago as being new, was soon dropped; but yesterday, when he passed me as I was sitting in a chair in his path, he crouched low to the ground and uttered one wahnk. I am still inclined to the view that this sound indicates fear--but not of sufficient intensity to cause him to abandon his objective. July 2nd. The hummer now has two chicks in the nest, this morning. Rhody true to present form all day, was given two mice, both of which received full honors with presentation at the mirror, fol- lowed by requiem in the house-nest. He came down from his house at 5 P.M., when I koke-koked at him, to get the second one. For the first one, he sailed down from a tree where I had not seen him, to make his wants known. Neo was glimpsed once or twice during the day. It may be