(172) that only small flecks of sunlight reach it. In all respects, except for instability of foundation, it is well located. About 12:30 B.E. brought up a large Jerusalem cricket. This is practically the only kind of insect she feeds of her own finding. While she was eating out of the spoon G.E. arrived with worms of some kind. I could not tell what they were as he pushed them down the gullet of a different bird too quickly. Both adults remained standing on the rim of the nest taking meal worms from my finger tips and gave them all of the five or six I had to the chick first fed by B.E., making no attempt to apportion them amongst the whole brood. Neither adult appeared to mind my poking about the brood with my fingers and the young ones did not flinch. On returning with some soft food, G.E. had gone but B.E. still sitting on the rim was very glad to have it. She gave none to the young. Even when I put the spoon partly in the mouth of one of them, she reached in and took food from it. About this time the chick fed by G.E. seemed to have some sort of spasm. Its head jerked backward and was laid flat on its back. Its feet quivered and were thrust out upon the rim of the nest. It looked as if it were dying. B.E., though did not seem to be concerned; I straightened out its neck with the spoon and it seemed to be all right again. Their feathers are bursting out of their sheaths rapidly now and their breasts are covered with feathers, About 2 o'clock Brownie was shading the young birds with her body and wings. When she came down I tried for another picture but she was still camera shy.(Meanwhile I had placed some pine branches to give the nest better shade). In about five minutes Brownie was in the upper court bathing and when she saw me sitting on a bench by the oval lawn in the shade of a small oak, came and jumped up on the bench beside me, then into the top of a Regal lily from which point she could get a better birdseye view of me and surroundings, and seeing