(156) five worms up to the nest in one bill full and was back at once. I now wished to see if she gave them all to one nestling or distributed them amongst them. So when she had gathered together, 5 more while sitting on my knee and had started for the nest, I went up myself, getting there before her. She pushed all of them down the throat of one bird running her bill in clear to the "hilt". Meanwhile Green-eyes came up the tree with an angle worm which he crowded down one throat by reaching under his mate and pushing her slightly to one side. He wanted to stay there and sit on top of Brown-eyes, but she wriggled out from under and started down the tree, while her mate settled himself on the nestlings, trampling all over them. This was not going quite properly to suit me, so I headed B.E. off by showing her the box of worms about 2 feet lower than the nest. She came promptly horizontally across the tree got a mouthful of about four and struggled up through the mass of small twigs to the nest, GREEN climbing on top of Green-eyes who raised his open bill asking for some. I thought he meant to eat them himself, which, under the circumstances would have been a rather shabby trick, but he was not quite so mean as that, for he took one from her bill, stood up, gave it to one of the chicks, while his mate shoved all of the three she had left down to the bottom rim of the top of another one. Both adults were now standing on the nest looking at me expectantly, showing no disposition to leave, so I held the worm box against the nest, nearest to Brown-eyes, her mate peering over her back from the rear. B.E. began taking worms several at a time without "preparing" them and pushing them down the yawning throats, both adults chuckling and clucking and G.E. taking some from his mate's bill and helping with the loadir's operation. Finally he managed to crowd to the front too and get worms from me direct which he fed to the young. It did not take