4½ minutes. She was followed by a pair of Spotted Towhees and then by a pair of Wrentits. When she left I xx crouched down by the rabbit and called her, displaying food. She came at once without sign of fear and ate from my hand, the muzzle of the gun being about six inches from her head. She did not look at the rabbit again and appeared tp have forgotten all about it. There appeared to be nothing in the episode to excite her fear cause me to be associated with it or to connect maxwithxik in her mind in any disagreeable sense. The birds are now standing regular watches on the nest and do not leave unattended at any time. Green-eyes is very sleek, but Brown-eyes is showing signs of wear; besides having her body feathers more or less ruffled, she has one tail feather broken and projecting at right angles to the rest, so for the present, at least, they may be distinguished at a considerable distance. Green-eyes comes to eat more boldly now and hangs around longer. At about 2 O'clock, after eating all the worms I had with me, he took one down to his mate and she came promptly up through the fence. She now knows that I carry the worms in the little tin box and shows much interest in it at times. April 9th. At 7:30 A.M. I wounded a jay and,while looking for+ it, Brown-eyes appeared, apparently looking for it also ! I gave her soft food and between pecks she kept looking up into the oak overhead and then ran a few steps away and stared fixedly up into the oak. I looked up and there was the jay sitting,without moving,on a limb, making no sound. I shot it and Brrown-eyes ran to inspect it! It looks as if one of her ancestors must have been a bird-dog! (Wrens are now building in a bird house in the court. It may be the same pair xx that has the nest in the house first noted, as the wind blew the top off of that one and they may have dxxx deserted it, although the nest is intact. That makes five