kinds of nests in the court. The nests of the junc and the quai are but 18 inches apart. The former seems permanently des- troyed; the latter seems to have been repaired, although there are no eggs in it). April 10th. At 10:20 A.M. as they were changing shifts they disclosed three eggs. As there were none on the 7th this means that the first egg was laid on the eighth and one this morning before ten twenty. It is rather curious that the first egg of each batch was laid on the 8th. of the month. If the incubation period is thirteen days for the first egg, with continuous incubation as Mr. Brock thinks, the first egg should hatch April 23rd. Green-eyes was on the nest before change of shift. I went up to the tool house where there is a clump of bracken where the Spotted Towhees usually nest and looked down into it in passing. This In the ferns within an area equivalent to that of a circle of three feet diameter were : A spotted towhee carrying nesting material, BROWN Green-eyes himself, A young rabbit about the size of the towhee. As Green-eyes "never" goes to this place and had left his own nest six times not two minutes before, he must have gone there out of curiosity, being attracted either by the rabbit or the towhee or both. As soon as he saw me, he recognized me as a potential food supply and forgot all about the other attractions, although he is usually stand- offish. Neither of the thrashers does much singing and then it is usually an undersong and that mostly by Brown-eyes when digging. The ventriloqual quality of this song still deceives me. (The Junco with white patches on cheeks and throat is still here. It also has a small patch in the mid- ble of its back). (The Wrentits are building, but it is