(160) her for worms by crouching down, opening his bill and raising his ridiculously small, round and concave wings until they nearly met over his back. On a coup le of trips Brown-eyes stopped and let him take two or three [illegible] from her each time. Once, instead of continuing to the nest, she returned to me to make up the shortage [illegible] caused by giving a part to her mate. Green-eyes finally All worms taken by Green-eyes in this way were faithfully carried by him up to the nest. He must have seen that I did not pounce upon his mate and tear her to shreds, for he abandoned his former procedure and was soon getting his worms direct from my hand, making trips alternately with [illegible] her until my local supply was exhausted. Brown-eyes does not like to jump up very far, preferring always to take off from the highest point available . She also likes to see in advance, if possible, just what kind of a land- ing field she is going to have. Further she uses her wings as little as possible (This seems to be true of both birds). In jumping up to my lap , knee or arm, when I am seated, she has to use her wings and often falls short. Sometimes she backs away, cranes her neck to have a good look, then makes another and more strenuous effort. If there is an intermediate point, however, conveniently located, she prefers to make even this short flight in two stages, using sometimes my foot, a rock or anything that gives her a higher take off and a better view of her destination. She also uses my seed cans when I have them with me, but their covers, like my shoe, are too slippery to be used by preference. Sometimes when apparently tired of making this "long" jump she will go around to the other side of me, climb up into a sage brush until she is level with my lap and sidle out on to a small branch to take off from there, but give it up, because, although the horizontal