(127) Mr. Brock's recommendations as to food supply. Now they swarm at every feeding station I have, no matter whether it contains food for them or not--also in the cherry tree--where they, the purple finches and the wren-tits are eating the cherries faster than they are ripening. It is odd that, although the purple finches are here all the time, rearing their broods here, they have not patronized the feeding stations often until the linnets led the way. Now they and the linnets fight for possession of them constantly. The purple finches are even bringing their young to them and the youngsters are now cracking seeds like veterans. A one legged male linnet sits in the seed trough of one station for many minutes at a time, repelling all comers, being most successful against the purple finches). May 13 Away all day. No observations until about 7:15 P.M. at which time the birds changed shift, I think, but it was a little too dark under the trees to be sure. At any rate, one bird went into the glade and another came out. Both were rather independent, although Brown-eyes came and ate worms. This is the latest that I have attempted to attract either [illegible] bird to me. All of the other birds, except a straggler or two at the feeding stations, have gone to roost. May 14 th. Nest occupied all the morning, the birds taking turns. At about 1:00 P.M. I was having luncheon in what the architects glorified as the cloister, but which the elec- trician, in labelling the various circuits in the house, Sce Jlwo. p 350 A considers the "collister". This is an passage way between the dining room and the shop along the north side of the court, open entirely open to the south, except for columns carrying at the upper story of the house. Brown-eyes appeared a "pudding" feeding station in a small oak about 30 feet away and, in