(118) after--I found a dead junco in the garden. For several days thereafter but one junc was seen to visit their accustomed feeding station, then it disappeared. There has always been at least one pair resident here at all times--I have thought two to only one, as each year I find three successive nests built by and no more. Since the destruction of the nest this year I have seen no further evidences of nest building and it looks as if there had been but one pair in residence). (Song Sparrows) The morning after the heavy rain of May first the song sparrow nest was empty except for three wet and cold eggs. Since then the birds have not been seen to visit the nest). May 5th At 7:30 Green-eyes was on the nest, Brown-eyes investigating things in the orchard. Amongst other things she noticed the ripening cherries. I do not know whether this means she intends to eat them or not. She came readily enough for to hand, but, after examining the soft food in which I had put a raisin or two, she would not touch it, but hung around me like a little boy around a kitchen table on which there are pies fresh from the oven. When I showed her the box of worms, life took on new interest. The nest looks appreciably smaller than either of the others. It is elliptical in plan and not circular. May 6th Away most of the day--so no observations other than a couple of feeding operations and noting that the nest was occupied. Two or three days ago I substituted soft food for the mixture of suet and scratch feed at the thrashers' feeding table and Brown-eyes gradually became more and more reluctant to take soft food from my hand, finally, on seeing that I had nothing but that kind in my hand, she would refuse to eat it insisting upon worms. It seemed to me that, if I should