(136) forbearance, but I get more pleasure from the friendliness of these birds than I could derive from a possible verification flattering to my vanity. Nest No.3 is smaller and shallower than either of the others Also it is elliptical in shape,on the outside at least. The birds usually lie along the major axis. May 18th At 8:25 Brown-eyes took meal worms from my hand, swallowing all but one of them. This one she took down to the ground and broke up. This was new behavior and I suspected that she was preparing it for her young and would swallow it and then feed the young by regurgitation. However she did not swallow it but did take it to the nest which was occupied by her mate. She stayed there several a minute or so, but I could not see what was taking place. All I could see was two long tails projecting beyond the edge of the nest. No shift occured, but Brown-eyes came out again and took more worms, swallowing four and taking one back to the nest without breaking it up. This time Green-eyes in the direction of the came out, ran past me to the berry patch, disappeared and called loudly: "Yurk-yurk, whit whit?" The u as in turk; the "yurk" drawn out and pitched at about middle C, the "whits" higher in pitch with rising inflection on the last one. He then appeared at the oval lawn, where I gave him worms, one of which he carried off toward the nest, running rapidly along the road. All of the forego ing occupied about 15 minutes. At about nine, while I was standing near the back door and watching the Lawrence finches, linnets and purple finches who are all building in this same tree, a thrasher was heard singing on the hillside and was located on top of a baccharis bush out in the open about 75 yards from me and 50 feet lower. I called and it immediately began answering"scrip, scrip", jumped to the ground, ran up through the brush calling all the time, flew over the fence