(94) the inner wall and pushes hard with her feet for about ten seconds with a curious quivering movement. She then draws back for ten or twenty seconds, shifts through a horizontal angle of about 30 degrees and repeats the process , going all ar around the circumference several times, occasionally adding more mud from her bill or picking up small loose pieces from the; rim outside of the.nest . (Her breast is all muddy and this accounts muddy water in the for the bird bath in the court today) The action is a pressing one entirely, not a"smoothing" one. No doubt this presses the mud in amongst the fibres in the nest, cementing them together). (The Bush-tit nest in the oak near the east line of the place, which I thought to be deserted long ago, is occupied after all. The one which was started on a black acacia was abandoned almost as soon as started). April22nd. At 9:15 A.M. [illegible] Brown-eyes was digging in the open. She worked over to me gradually and began chirping. This meant that she was going to relieve her mate and,as we were near the openig in the fence, she would be able to beat me to it if I waited, so I did not stop to feed her and made for the nest first. It was almost a dead heat, but I won by a hair. Three eggs! The fourteenth day of incubation not quite completed. At 11:50 still three eggs and no young. This ends 14 days. April 23 rd. At about 7:30 Brown-eyes was on the nest, Green-eye nowhere in sight. He shortly appeared however on a bare branch divrd in the old oak, where he sat preening for a time and then dove down to the nest. Brown-eyes came through the fence and ate a little soft food; but she had something else on her mind and did not stay with me long, climbing up to the perch occupied a few minutes before by her mate and sang a few snatches. She would not come down for food and shortly went up into the top of