bird on the nest, the eggs are dry and warm. The robin looked especially comfortable during the heaviest down-fall today and particularly the nest is not especially well protected against rain. The location of Thrasher nest No.3 is well protected from heavy winds. So far I have seen it only from the ground below. It will be difficult to observe what happens in it. None of the branches can support the weight of a man and a ladder will be difficult to place without causing great disturbance of the nest. After two failures I hesitate to risk unduly alarming the birds. May 2nd Neither bird on the nest at 7:00 A.M. Both north of the entrance driveway. Brown-eyes ate maxworm soft food andxxx meal worms, carrying as many of the latter to her mate as she ate herself. At 11:30 Brown-eyes came and looked me up north of the road, looked having just had a soaking bath somewhere, and looking like an old pine cone. She was very anxious to have some food and it seemed a good time, especially as she was very active and friendly, to see if I could get her to fly up off of the ground and eat out of my hand while sitting there. She took several worms on the fly when I offered them to her about 3 feet from the ground and when I held the worm box at about the same height she flew up and sat on my hand while eating. This is the first time she has flown to my hand, although she frequently stand on it when it is placed on the ground. Finally she took one worm down to the nest. During the time she was preening and digging (about half the time within reach) and the power and rapidity of her movements are surprising. She uncovered a seed vessel of the Pittosporum tobira and shook it so rapidly that the vibration of her head and bill made a buzzing sound. of the order of pitch of that produced by a humming bird's wings. This seems incredible. At 2:45 Green-eyes was sitting in the nest exchanging low calls with his mate, who repeated her performance of flying to my hand.