(134) away somewhere. He blundered about in the thick foliage making a lot of noise and continued his call. Brown-eyes appeared quietly in the glade sitting on a fragment of bark, perfectly quiet and erect. Green-eyes, on seeing her, dropped to the ground, sang a few notes followed by the "Pit-yourki" phrase--not heard from him before, ran up to her, crouched low to the ground, opened his raised bill and said :"Hair!" without the r. Brown-eyes kept perfectly still, not appearing to notice him, whereupon Green-eyes reached up very slowly and gently and carefully drew the worm out from her bill. Brown-eyes then went up to the nest over my head. I could see hear her tail moving about and her pecking something. This was new. Suddenly she jumped up out of the nest with something in her bill, dropped to the ground, ran rapidly by me and around behind the bushes. I caught a glimpse of the object and it looked like one of the eggs or a fragment of one. I followed her path-- roughly a circle about 15 feet in diameter--but could find nothing. She was back in the nest again. Meanwhile Green-eyes, contrary to custom, had not left. Brown-eyes came out of the nest again in half a minute, coming to me for worms, Green-eyes immediately taking her place in the nest, making a sort of chuckling sound. This sound, as well as the whole procedure, was new to me. I expected Brown-eyes to return to the nest again almost immediately after eating the dozen or more worms that she took, but she did not, disappearing into the brush, leaving her mate upon the nest where he was at the beginning. This all took place within a period of about five minutes. Superficially, beginning with Green-eyes' "scripping" from the nest, the performance, in my imagination, seemed to indicate: First, some unusual event, probably the hatching of an egg. Second, Green-eyes' announcement of the event to the