1618 recollection serves--his song was the most like Brownie's of any other thrashers I have heard (Barring Greenie's, which, as the notes show, was considered to have been derived from Brownie's). For the first time since Brownie's demise, or rather since Brownie was first listened to, I heard some of his phrases from another bird--again excepting Greenie. Notably present were the tork-peelya and torquita phrases and, I think, some of the "incidental music". About 9:45 the other thrashers had drifted away and this singer occupied the immediate territory as the only singer. I was now mildly astonished to see Rhody climbing up toward him. Although he frequently sits in this tree, it is lower down, but he now went up fully 20 feet, as it seemed, to get nearer the thrasher. For a few minutes song ceased, but to be renewed again in full volume from the same position. I now went to the tree to see what Rhody was doing. He was hard to find in the dense foliage, but he was sitting quietly on a small limb, apparently listening to the thrasher in most re- spectful attention! There had been no disturbance of any kind--no hasty movements and, while I watched, there were no threats. Some place or other in these notes, I think, there is recorded an instance (or instances) of Rhody's having been definitely attracted by the song of Brownie. At 10:10 the thrasher left to resume song farther to the east. This ended the convention, at least here, for the day. Rhody and the unseen (?) jay. About 2:P.M. I found Rhody in the cage plainly not entirely at ease, for he was standing quietly on the ground, raising and lowering his crest rhythmically with neck stretched forth and gazing intently to the west. After several minutes of this he came out carefully concentrating his gaze high up in the pine by the cage. He walked under it, came to rest and, for perhaps ten minutes, continued this scrutiny. I examined the tree from all directions, but could see nothing, so went to look into trees further to the west. No sound came from any of them, but I detected some slight movement in the fourth tree 30 or 40 feet up and a jay flew from it back to the third tree. Rhody now came out and joined me at the fourth tree, peering up into it. He now went back to the third and stared up into that, then started to climb it, reconsidered and went over the fence. The jay now returned to the fourth tree and still made no outcry. Ordinarily Rhody pays no attention to jays and it seemed probable that there was some other creature which aroused his at- tention. To develop the situation I got a BB gun and fired it up into a branch in the fourth tree. The jay flew off screaming. Rhody startled, moved off two yards. Nothing else happened and Rhody composed himself to preen. I am inclined to the view that Rhody was unable to see the jay any more distinctly than I; he was aware of something up in the tree, was naturally cautious, but relaxed when the mystery was solved. He had three small mice today and was followed as he went to the old house for the night. He entered it at precisely 5:45. August 25th There was early song by thrashers which, by 8 o'clock, simmered down to a long solo by Neo in the vicinity of his group of nests. The victoree phrase was of frequent occurrence. He suc- ceeded in attracting only one thrasher, presumably N2; so the con- vention did not form today. Rhody had a small mouse and a peep at the owl in the forenoon and was much in the upper garden and the low part of the roof. In the afternoon he came and watched me trimming trees near the liv- ing room west window, for about an hour. He negotiated a large mouse successfully.