(84) a deficiency which should be remedied in the course of time if the evolutionary principle of adaptive modification is still operative or, if one prefers that point of view, if the tenets of the Fundamentalists are sound. At about 12:25 Brown-eyes was almost out og sight in a large hole which she was digging in the northbank of the glade. She paid little attention to me at first, but finally condescended to come for soft food and worms. After having several of the latter, she called once or twice and held the one last worm in her bill. This meant that she would take it down to her mate in the east , so I hurried there arriving as the change was being made. Three eggs. This seems to be a set for these birds. 2P.M. Brown-eyes, after pretending that she did not want any worms, when I walked a few steps away, edged over toward me casting sheep's eyes at me, turning over pieces of bark, looking curiously at a lizard that was doing setting up exer- cises, inspecting cracks in the wall, climbing up into a sage brush a couple of feet awaypoking at things aimlessly, finally decided that I was not going to do anything aboutx so to help out the commissary department,and that a good sun-fit xxx would be in order. This she proceeded to "do" about four feet away, first puffing out all of her feathers,and loosening them up, combing them out with her bill. Then having assured herself of the exact location of the sun by cocking one eye up at it and opening her bill wide, she intro- duced a new feature by spreading both of her wings out on the ground instead of raising one at a time vertically for the sun to shine under. All of this seemed to have the effect of concentrating her personal population at more accessible points where she proceeded to dislodge it with beak and claw,