(65) 11:30 At I have watched the nest continuously since 10:45. At that time Brown-eyes was on duty and Green-eyes had come to the foot of the ladder looking up at me for worms. I tossed him a few and he came up to the nest. Brown-eyes stood up in it revealing three eggs. They both inspected them, Brown-eyes fumbling them with open beak and pecking very gently after which she settled on them firmly and Green-eyes disappeared. Brown-eyes then became very sleepy, yawned, rested her bill on the edge of the nest and closed her eyes, opening them from time to time at some unusual noise or disturbance of the branches. Talking to her did not disturb her. Until 11:25 she had a succession of naps and, at intervals raised herself slightly in the nest and probed well underneath herself with her bill, firmly settling after each probing. At 11:25 Green-eyes appeared in the glad from side to side toward the side from which Green-eyes' rustling in the leaves on the ground came. She then stretched her neck to its full length without rising from the nest and peered over the edge toward the ground. I said to her: "Call him, Brownie and maybe he'll come". It xxx almost seemed as if she understood, for she almost immediately broke out into the first dozen or so notes of what seemed to be the typical thrasher undersong. Her mate immediately came to the nest and took charge. He made no preliminary inspection, and settled quickly with the same movements as his mate, but less thoroughly and deliberately. Still three eegs after 18 days of incubation for one of them. If the few records I have seen are correct, it looks as if xxx a favorable issue need not be expected. If they do not hatch, it may develop that the eggs were sterile in the first instance; but if fertile, then my first guess would be that failure to hatch was