1759 ently, just as I have said: more than ordinarily interested. He wanted no food from me, but once hemoved still closer and seemed about to jump up into my lap, but did not. Finally he wandered off to sit on a bank by the shop-yard, still appearing to marvel at the wonders of nature. I went up to him and held a meal-worm an inch or two from his bill. He merely looked at it cross-eyedly. He seems to be in a mood of trustful naivete, like a child. As far as known, this one piece of meat is all he has had since bedtime yesterday. After the first short period of thrasher song noted above, nothing more has heard from those birds (2 P.M.) but Neo, about 1 P.M. came for worms tossed for him at the oval lawn. (Note that this is a rather warm day). Although there was no noisy collection of youngsters in the street near Rhody's house No.2, he did not go there at all, but to No. 1 for the night. He wanted no mice today. Screech owl. Late in the evening a boy and a girl brought a screech-owl which they had found in apparently helpless condition. The bird was put under observation in a small cage. I could see nothing wrong with it. October 22nd. (Sunrise 6:25; sunset 5:23). Earliest thrasher song heard at 6:15 A.M.; thereafter very little during the day. The function of this short, early song seems to be to summon the mate, since male and female do not ordinarily roost together. About 8:30 A.M., without moving more than 100 feet, the following birds were seen or heard in the garden (about 63°): 1 Quail, dozens, 2 Ruby-crowned kinglet, several, 3 Hermit thrush, one (This one took worms tossed to it). 4 California jay, several, 5 Flicker, one, 6 Bushtit, dozens, 7 Bewick wren, two, 8 Robin, two or three, 9 Gambel sparrow, several, 10 Nuttall " , " 11 Golden crowned sparrow, several, 12 Song sparrow, several, 13 Brown towhee, " 14 Spotted ", " 15 Purple finch, one or two, 16 House ", " " 17 Greenbacked goldfinch, one or two, 18 California thrasher, two (Neo and N2 coming for worms) 19 Road-runner, (Rhody, looking me up to get a mouse while I was engaged with the thrashers) 20 Wren-tits, two ("Always" not less than two). (It was only by chance that Steller jays and Anna hummingbirds were not seen here at this time: a ten minute period).