(88) looked as if she might be making a collection for Green-eyes. From past observations, I believe that this was her first in- tention, but, if so, it was abandoned. Usually the first symptom of such action consists in holding a worm in the bill and looking toward the nest; the second is to chirp and then start running for the nest. If no chirp is given the bird usually eats the worm itself, but if it chirps this seems to indicate the formation of a definite resolution to carry it to its mate. However, this is not an absolutely invariable procedure. A.M. April 17th. Rain started about 9:50. Looks like a local shower as the sun is shining at many points about the Bay and the are there a clear patches in the sky. This is the ninth day of incubation for the first egg. The birds have given continuous attention to their duties and only one bird at a time ever is seen away from the nest. (10:01, sun coming out). Gave Brown-eyes "the run of the box" again. She ate all the worms she wanted, laying one on the ground beside her, during the process, then carrying it toward the nest. When half way there she changed her mind and ate it herself. I am inclined to the belief that she had just come off shift and that it was too soon to change. 10:10--Brown-eyes digging vigorously and singing to herself in a flower bed at the oval lawn. I look down at her from the patio ten feet above and forty feet away and call her. She will not come but gets quite excited about, running about, looking up at me and throwing small clods about, in the meantime practicing her undersong, a strain of which has puzzled me the last two or three days. I now recognize it as the "kee, kee, kee-kee " of the Sparrow Hawk (Desert? Sparrow Hawk-Cerchneis sparveria phalaena (?)) very much softened, but per observation was made it was repeated with the same bird.