(165) circle before they leave the nest. I would like to add them to the permanent population of my hilltop, but fear that the doc- trine of territoriality will operate against them. The bills of the youngsters are beginning to show a little downward tendency at the tips, but their eyes are not yet open. In a day or so I shall try to feed them direct, if the old birds will permit. May 25th At 8 A.M. I went up to the nest, both parents being absent. The young are showing pin feathers, and at least two of them have their eyes open, but they were mere slits. I was tryin to get at the third one to examine it but Green-eyes appeared scrapping and plumped down on the nest, so I left. Brown-eyes came to me in the orchard, very eager for worms. She would not wait for me to transfer worms from the box to my hand, but, without invitation, jumped up and dug them out herself without waiting for me, almost touching my face. She made a number of tri trips back and forth to the nest, about 50 feet away and was all eagerness, in striking contrast to her behavior before the camera yesterday. She took all my worms, about thirty, to the young and ate soft food herself when these were gone. She then hung around me occasionally jumping up into my hand to look at the soft food to see if, by some miracle, it might not be worms after all. As I walked away slowly, she followed me like a dog. As I paused to look at the fig crop, she climbed up into the tree and out along the limbs toward me so as to get a near view of my upper stories in case any worms might have been overlooked. She then came down, altogether followed me for about 200 feet, before giving up the job as hopeless. When last seen on this occasion she was standing erect in the middle of the oval lawn watching me going up to the house, having apparently forgotten all about hawks and cameras. At 9:30 the adults were not on the nest, but I heard Green-eyes