(73) ately to me alternately eating and picking up twigs. Just now, at 10 o'clock, she has been alternately eating soft food from my hand and jumping into the drinking vessel along side of me and making deep, rich, throaty "talk". It appears that they are going to take their time about this nest also. (Fox sparrow and Hermit thrush still here). (Spotted Towhees have been doing a lot of complaining for the last week or so). 12:30 About 7 feet from the new nest there is a Catalina Kromwood (Fremontia x [illegible]) XX a Leatherwood (Fremontia Californica). It was originally surrounded by a small basin to hold water. This has now become a small bench with a bank on the upper side about 16 or 18 inches high. About 12, looking down the bank through the fence, I noticed Green-eyes jumping down on it to this bench, up again, circling about it, peering down over the top, etc. He appeared quite excited. I went down and stood ten feet from where he was performing these evolutions. There is a gopher hole in the bank noted. It is this hole which has Green-eyes so excited. While I watched him he continued these antics, crouching low to the ground and peering into the hole from a point as near as he dared to go. His tail feathers were widely spread and from time to time he would raise his to its full length toward the hole. He looked more road-runner-like than ever. While he was conjuring up some bogey or other, Brown-eyes appeared quietly on the edge of the bank, giving Green-eyes a bad fright. He returned to his doings, however, and Brown-eyes gave him one good sound peck, then looked into the hole herself with no special interest. G.E. kept this up, I should say, for fully ten minutes. B.E. following him about more or less trying to attract his attention, then going to the new nest; finally both left and when I got back to the house, were feeding at the oval lawn.