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itinerary as a matter of routine during the feeding period.
It was soon manifest that Brown-eyes needed little inducement,
for, on her second foray while she stopped, turned back and came
to me, took only one of the worms offered, beat it upon the
ground, then carried it to the nest. In a couple of minutes she
was back again; but as I had seen her eat nothing herself all
the morning, this time I offered her a handful of [illegible] soft
food only. She jumped up, seemed a little disappointed at
first, but ate the food. She went around my chair and prospected
in the sage near my left hand. I thought she deserved worms,
so offered her the open tin box in my left hand, whereupon she
proceeded to sit on the sharp edge eating all of the worms
that she could get at from so awkward a position, beating the last
one upon the ground, then going to the nest and showing no
signs of leaving on another expedition. I then left. Green-eyes,
was taking his turn feeding also, but did not come to me, al-
directed
though on one occasion he dove out of the nest straight at
me, turned in the air and then went into the bushes behind me.
To come to me, both of these birds had to reverse their usual
course.(This about
covers the 20 minute observation period).
12:20. The following observations were made between 11:45
and 12:15. On my way to the glade the thrasher were both near
the N.E. corner, Green-eyes having a good sun-fit, Brown-eyes
foraging. The latter with a worm in her bill, ran towards me.
I showed her a meal worm and she did not know what to do about
it. It looked as if she would eat her own and then get mine.
Then she changed her mind, put her own down on the ground,
beat it some more, started toward me again, then went up to the
nest. As the twelve o'clock whistles were blowing I sat in the
chair. The wren-tits appeared at once to inspect me. Lazuli