(144) Buntings were singing a few feet away. A Western(?) Flycatcher perched 20 feet off looking at me. Green-eyes took a worm of his own discovery up to the nest. Brown-eyes came down and got one from me, eating none herself. The Grosbeaks returned, singing. A Gambel ( or Nuttall) Sparrow sang about six feet away, then moved to ten feet away facing me, singing, so I could see down his throat. A quail clucked in the bushes at my back. Two Lazuli Buntings appeared in the top of the old oak overhead as did also the two kinds of towhees , lower down. Brown-eyes came for another worm to take to the nest, again eating nothing. This time she dx stayed there indefinitely, as I left at 12:15. Before this, however, bush tits had come in and also siskins. Ordinarily bird life is not much in evidence here during the midd: of the day. The glade, counting from the drip of the outer branches, is roughly circular, approximately 75 feet outside diam: eter. All of the birds mentioned in these two sets og observatkk( observations were, at one time or another, during the periods mentioned within a projected area not exceeding 30 feet in diameter. 4:00. 3:45 both thrashers were out foraging. Brown-eyes came back to me, however, and I gave her a good meal of soft food and then a worm. The latter she worried about on the ground for a bit, then took it to the nest. I entered the glade and sat in the chair. In the next 7 minutes--actual timing--Brown-eyes made 5 trips between me and the chair, taking up 6 worms. Each time she flew up off of the ground and perched in my hand and each time she worried the unlucky worm about on the ground close to my chair, but not doing any apparent damage to it as far as I could see. Evidently this is a custom established for the purpose of divesting the prey of inconvenient appendages and is adhered to whether it is so equipped or not. The fifth kx