in settling in the nest finally ended with her back toward me, but an arm's length away. March 24th. At 8 Brown-eyes on duty. At 9:05, Green-eyes. Fed B.E. and she came up to the nest and took charge at 9:15. There were still three eggs in the nest. 16 days incubation. 11:40. As Brown-eyes replaced Green-eyes there were seen to be still 3 eggs. At exactly 2 P.M. I was on the platform, Green-eyes on the nest. This bird usually faces S.W., that is: diagonally toward the plat- form. I went down into the glade, Brown-eyes immediately coming to me. For the next 25 minutes she was never farther away from me than 10 feet--usually closer-- eating food from hand, jumping up to take worms from between thumb and forefinger held about 18 inches from the ground; digging in the earth, overturning stones and slabs of bark; under-mining one of the supports of the platform; pecking at nail heads; preening and stretching with occasional glances up at the sky and toward the nest. I took a dried blossom stalk of the soap root about 2 feet long and 1/4 inch in diameter and tapped her on the back to see how she would react. At first she gave it no attention. I tapped harder; she merely opened and closed her wings. I tapped her still harder; she turned quickly, seized the stalk in her bill, shook it and threw it violently from her, then advanced a few steps toward me and looked up into my face. At no time did she retreat or give evidence of fear. She was clearly an- noyed and knew who was responsible. I went up the ladder; she came to the bottom, looked up and tap- ped things with her bill, then climbed up to the nest, Green-eyes turning his head toward her, opening his bill and "bubbling" then stepping out of the nest. There were still three eggs.