(77) almost immediately relieved by her mate who shaped it a little inside. Brown-eyes then dug small stones out of the bank and let them roll down to the sidewalk, now and then coming out for a worm. A little later both birds were very busy carrying lining material in large quantities to the nest. Most of it was found in the glade and carried through the favorite passage through the fence. They worked very closely together and on their return trips frequently came through the opening in tandem, reminding one of a two-car train coming out of a tunnel. Although Green-eyes knows soft food very well by this time, having eaten plenty of it, he is still somewhat puzzled as to what should be done about it when I hold it out to him. It looks as if he thought that there should be only worms there, as he frequently examines it carefully and takes only a peck or two, then looks about as if something were missing. This morning he repeated this performance and then tried to swallow one of my finger-tips. He then noticed that there was a short, thick stick upon which my hand was resting, so it became necessary for him to dig that out. Brown-eyes, during this performance, having had enough for the time being, was digging about three feet away in the place where the loamy soil was covered with fragments of bark and leaves. She made so large and deep a hole that she got entirely below the surface of the ground and had to lift out the larger fragments by picking them up with her bill instead of sweeping them out. They worked steadily on the nest for about two hours in the morning, repeatedly passing within a few inches of a lizard sunning himself near their trail. They occasionally glanced at him, but did not offer to molest him. A little later, however, Brown-eyes saw another lizard run into a crack in a low stone wall and spent some time probing about for him.