oval lawn. Interchange of full songs followed for about 20 minutes, the song of the second birdbeing much like that of Neo, but inferior I suspected this bird to be N2 and waited. (For it to join Neo). Shortly it appeared in the path on the way to Neo's tree. I made worm-tossing gestures and it ran back. I filled it up with worms. N2, still a bigger bird than Neo, with one or two loose feathers. She went to join Neo. Singing stopped for a moment, then was resumed ceased abruptly. There was no h-a-i-h greeting such as Brownie and Greenie used. At 11:05 one bird could be seen working its way toward the glade and both disappeared, absolute thrasher-silence reigned. 11:25. First subsequent thrasher sound (11:25) as I wrote the foregoing: scrippin outside in the garden somewhere near. (N2 is the more frequent scripper of the two birds). Song renewed shortly from Tree N. Soon an answer from the other side of the house. In 15 minutes or so Neo came down from the pine and went over to investigate. I was now occupied with a visitor and did not follow up. Scattering song was heard from different places in the garden up to about 2 P.M. 4:36. No gathering of thrashers here today of convention proportions; the most to be accounted for in the garden at one time was three. About 3 o'clock Rhody was heard "tearing cloth" for the benefit of the magpies. He desisted when he saw me walking toward the tool-house, followed and was given a small mouse. A little after 4 P.M. he was again at the magpie cage and again came for his mouse. As these mice are very small, I offered him another. He was undecided, watched it for several minutes; reached for it several times; concluded he had no space left; went off to dust and was in his house No.2 at 4:22. (Calm, sunny, 67°). This is so early that I think it likely that he will come down again. 5:40. I went out to see if Rhody had stayed in No.2. He had not. I tapped the tree with a long pole to make sure I had not overlooked him. No results. I looked about to see if he might be near, mouse-minded. Not present, 5:15. Nothing remained to be done but to go down to his house No.1. He was in the ladder-tree in the next to the last position, staring fixedly in the direction of his next move. He remi ned thus for 5 minutes, then moved to the last position in the ladder tree. 4½ minutes there, still in the same pose without a glance at me, and he jumped across to the nest tree. A half minute wait, still staring ahead, and he was inside his house and settled, tail up against the wall, at 5:32. At this time the sun was still shining directly into both houses. Modification of earlier analysis of relative warmth of recorded above, it was calm. At No.1 I found a stiffish areas surrounding the two houses. September 12th. 9:55 A.M. At 5:30 A.M. I heard the first thrasher call (or rather first heard) close to the house on the west. Song at various points about the garden has been heard almost constantly since.