to cover it properly. It is rather surprising to me to find her so unafraid and patient under conditions which well might be irritating. She does not protest by voice or manner and seems to take my interference with her domestic affairs as a matter of ordinary routine. She did not feed the nestling while I was at the nest. April 25th. At 9:15 A.M. Brown-eyes was in the glade moving about and giving her "Bluebird" call. She would not come to me for food, but soon went to the nest. I went there and found her in it. I returned to the glade and Brown-eyes came from the nest, chirping. I went back and there was no bird on the nest. Investigation also showed that the young bird had disappeared and the other two eggs had not hatched. I could find no sign of the young one either in the branches or on the ground underneath. The nest appears to be intact. Green-eyes was nowhere to be seen and his mate showed no disposition to return to the nest. It looks as if this might be another failure as it has been 15 days since the last egg was laid. If the remaining eggs do not hatch, I shall open them in a day or two. The rest of the forenoon the birds kept themselves out of sight, except for a short glimpse I had of one of them in the bushes near the tool house. I hunted for them several times but could neither hear nor see them anywhere. I went to all of their usual haunts and to many places where they seldom go, but no signs of them. A little after noon I sat inside of the fence, south of the glade and called at intervals. No answer for a long time and then there was a reply from the branches of one of the oaks nearby--a snatch of call again, it was repeated. This happened several times, then the branches began to move and Brown-