Rhody's first ob- served positive nest- ing reflex of the season. While sunning himself in the glade he picked up a large twig, considered taking it up into a tree and finally abandoned it. While, as the notes show, he has done this before this season, this was the most positive indication of desire to build. On the other hand, it tends to support the inferences drawn from the earlier actions that these were precursors of more active awakening of his reproductive urge. He was given a mouse after he had gone to bed in No. 1. No.2 seems to cut no figure at present in his daily life. Thrashers frequently sang about the premises, Neo and mate spending much time here, especially in their last years nesting area. February 2nd. Thrashers sing in rain. A day of frequent heavy rains. Thrashers heard to sing in the rain. Rhody was visited in his house several times during the and given a mouse there twice. The evidence is that he did not come down at all. February 3rd. Sun, rain and cloud. Rhody in his house most of the day., where Was twice given a mouse. Thrasher song first hear about 6:50 A.M. and thereafter ofte during the day. "Foreign" bird were occasionally heard nearby. February 4th. A brilliant morning. First thrasher song heard at 6:45 A.M. (Getting earlier?). Almost continuous up to 10:30. About 10 A.M., Rhody could not be located on the west lot, but a few minutes later, he was in full song from the top of the old oak, then continued to wander all about the place in apparent search for a mate. He seemed to listen to all sounds and often ran toward them, singing many times. In one of his more sedentary states I sat about 5 feet from him and watched. It was easy to induce him to sing. (The thrush came and joined us, looking for "hand-outs." Rhody could not be tempted to interrupt his search and song by offer- ings of mice and, by 11:30 had apparently reconciled himself to defeat, so began a systematically oiling his plumage, nibbling the nipple of his preen gland, beginning with the tip of his bill and extending the operation of oil collecting all the way to the angle of his mouth, then rubbing his cheeks and ear-coverts on the gland, following at once with dabs at various points all over his body. His tail is so long that he can not take hold of it easily. He has to bend it quickly to one side and make a sudden snatch at it before it bends back again out of his reach. When he does catch one of the rectrices, usually an outside one, he draws it between his mandibles, but it usually gets away from him before he reaches the outer end. While watching him and following him about he was often seen to do his wing-clapping act and I still suspect that the slapping is done above his back. (11:35. He has renewed song and I go out to watch him). I found him on the west lot, where it is warm and sunny in the open. He is still singing at 12:30 P.M. Mrs. Scamell says that he was tapping on her dining-room window "a few days ago". Another sign of his spring awakening.