the first place. Brown-eyes still hovers the eggs, but leaves when she feels like it, whether her mate is there to relieve (although I have not actually seen her leave the nest) er or not. At 12:30 she had been off the nest for about ten minutes leaving the eggs bare. At 1:30 there were no birds in the nest. I was feeling about in the nest to see how dry it was, when Brown-eyes appeared on the edge of it and when I partially withdrew my hand she stepped into sat on it without hesitation. I withdrew it and after a few moments reached out and touched her on the bill and the head. She did not cringe or show fear. Green-eyes was below in the glade, very friendly. I have not seen him stand watch today. Brown-eyes was on the oval lawn at 3:15. I gave her worms and ther went to the nest. Three cold eggs. However this did not discourage Brown-eyes, for she appeared almost at once and climbed up the tree and into the nest. I had just fed her about a minute before 175 feet away, when she was all friendlike but but in the nest she would not pay the slightest attention to a worm . At 5:30 I was working in the orchard. and She appeared and came running and half flying to eat a hearty meal of soft food; Green- eyes watching from a few feet away, neither offered to take food nor to take a turn on the eggs. As far as I can see, he has definitely struck. His mate, however, is still full of opti- mism. After she left I went to the nest and found her on it. I think that there is little doubt of Brown-eyes' being the female, as she is consistently called in these notes. Green-eyes spent a large part of the morning practicing his undersong. March 29 At 7:30 Brown-eyes sitting placidly on the eggs. She has evidently not given up hope. $ 9:45 Brown-eyes in the nest. (I wonder, if I should take her eggs away from her, whether she would lay more in the same nest.) Whenever she is off of the nest and I feed her, she goes back