for that event. Or perhaps there is a vague association of ideas in which sitting in a nest, eggs and carrying of food are somehow linked together. On this occasion the eggs were exposed for perhaps a couple of minutes--less if anything. In the afternoon the birds appar- ently had no recollection of the morning's episode. One of them looked at the structure from the ground with some show of curiosity and found that my digging operations offered a good field for ex- ploration. Green-eyes is by far the most "powerful" sun-fitter I have yet seen and, this afternoon, about ten feet away in the glade, he surpassed all previous performances. He usually starts these by first cocking one eye up to the sun and opening his beak, (remind- ing me forcibly of a similar attitude of a friend who used the method as a means of inducing a sneeze). The bird's feathers are stood on end so that the sun's rays penetrate down to the skin. In the case of Green-eyes I have noticed that these "fits" are often followed by periods of vigorous neck-scratch easily heard ten feet away. One wonders if the sunning has any connection with look for parasites. One would expect mites to seek protection from the sun and seek shelter, thus concentrating at points where, perhaps, the bird can get at them. Brown-eyes came to me to eat worms and soft food this after- oon with three visitors standing nearby. March 20th. At 8:30 Brown-eyes on the nest, Green-eyes on the bank outside the fence. On call G.E. came up to the fence, reaching through it to clear a passage-way with his bill, but gave it up, as there were too many twigs in the way pushing him back. I moved to a place where they have a passage already cleared and he shifted there, coming to me for worms. His approach is more wary than that of