one at a time, and then resumed digging. Brown-eyes came over, ate three worms and then took one to her mate. She came back again for more. I held the worm box almost concealed in my hand so that she had to dig reach down [illegible] between my fingers to get them. After eating three she picked out five, which she had some difficulty in holding se- curely, it being necessary to arrange them on the ground prop- erly in parallel lines, then took them all to Green-eyes. The latter, during all of this time would not put himself out in the slightest to earn these worms. He would not even turn around to face in the right direction or interest himself in anything but digging with machine-like regularity--not even take one step towards his mate or even look to see whether she was coming. After this Brown-eyes came for a good hearty meal of soft food, talking a little, and then joined her mate in an assault upon the cut-worms and other pests at the base of the currant bushes. With Green-eyes behaving so indif- ferent even towards his mate's efforts to keep him from star- ving; it is rather hard to account for his ever coming to me to eat. (The robins have several eggs and spend a lot of time on the nest, but do not occupy it continuously as the thrashers do after the first egg is laid. About seven a male quail looking for a nesting place on the flat roof over the one story part of the house went into a small house which I had formerly kept among the shrubs, hoping that quail might nest in it. A year ago, Julio, noticing a pigeon making frequent visits here, moved the box to its present location, hoping the pigeon would occupy it, but without success. I have seen quails rear broods of young in second-story window boxes in which flowers were grown. Such nests have always given