as the tip is easily pushed under the eggs and the eggs pried up. After this inspection she picked some invisible object off of the lining and then "rubbed" herself down upon the eggs more ener- getically than I have seen her do before. In a few moments she went over the whole process again, carefully. If she were a human being I would say that she is getting anxious about the outcome. but the birds do not The nest appears damp, with the exception of their tails which look quite archeopteryxtic. The nest location is not a good one when the wind is southerly. The slope of the ground to the south tends to give the wind an upward trend and I can imagine it filtering up through the nest carrying off the B.T.U. from the eggs. March 26th. At 7:50 A.M., after a night of hard rain, Brown-eyes in the nest looking dry and comfortable. At 9:20 Brown-eyes in the nest. I went down into the glade. Shortly there was a succession of call notes sounding like those of the western blue-bird and Green-eyes walked out of the bushes and came to me for food quite like his mate. When I climbed the ladder he came to the foot of it and I dropped worms to him. When he had had enough he gave the blue-bird call again and came up to the nest bringing a worm with him. (Expecting young?) Brown-eyes dived out of the nest and her mate inspected the three eggs, settled upon them and then swallowed the worm. Brown-eyes was waiting at the foot of the ladder, so I went down and gave her soft food and worms. The last day or two, when eating thus, she has frequently looked beyond me directing her gaze along the ground as if suspecting an enemy. I have repeatedly turned to look, but all I have been able to see that might be suspicious is a brake here and there stirring in the gusts of wind that have lately been coming into