response to invitation, dropped to the ground with a piece of suet in her bill and trotted toward me. When she reached the small gold-fish and lily pool near me she perched on a small rock on its margin and showed much interest in the fish, turning her head from side to side in order to follow their movements the better. She then came into the cloister where I sat at the table and jumped up on to my hand which I held at about the level of the seat of the chair. When she had had enough to eat she flew off, giving a decided push with her feet on the take-off. (At 8P.M. Julio brought in to the living room two fledgling Plain Titmice, too young to fly. They had fallen out of their nest in the bird house in the court, where he heard them calling on the ground. When brought into the light they begged vociferous. for food and showed no fear. They were too young to be able to swallow food without assistance. We got a ladder and a flash light and climbed up to the nest, turning the light into the entrance hole to see what might have happened. One of the parents was in the nest and at once assumed a belligerent attitude, fluffing up her feathers, hissing like a cat and striking at the opening, but not offering to come out. I put the young birds inside and all quieted down . In the morning there were four young in the nest, this being the full number of this particular brood. This nesting box is the one previously referred to as the oldest inhabited house in this section of Piedmont, man or bird, and is the one made for the wrens to sleep in during the winter of 1926. In the spring of '27 the titmice ejected the wrens and there has been more or less dispute about it ever since between the two kinds of birds, though I do not know whether they are the same individuals are concerned. Last year one of the quarrels resulted in one of the titmouse eggs being thrown out. This year the wrens have exit in an adjoining house twenty feet away and I suspect that one of the wrens may have sought to