however, and with no invitation, forced my fingers apart with her bill (without very much resistance on my part) and got what she wanted, then off foraging. which was 8 or 10, and gave them all to one nestling. It may be that the food supply is apportioned largely by feeding the young in more or less regular turns on successive xi trips, but so far, when an adult arrives with a load, even when it consists of a large number of worms, the entire quantity has been invariably all given to one chick. To date also, the food supply, except as furnished by me, has been overwhelmingly Jerusalem crickets. Julio says he has positively seen one centipede fed, and he knows what they are, for I have shown them to him often when working in the garden and have given him their English names. Later - several Yesterday Greenie produced a new call while under the nest tree upon trying to decide which branch to start his climb to the nest. It was many time repeated and was reminiscent of the Western Kingbird, not however, of its shriller cries. 10:30. I have a good joke on Brown-eyes. While looking at the young only birds, as the parents were away, Brownie came up with one of the two angle worms which I have seen fed to the nestlings. She chuckled to them, but none would pay the slightest attention to her, or even move. She sat there overhanging them "with a benevolent expression on her face" if the liberty may be taken, and the worm dangling from both sides of her bill. At last one of the youngaters opened its eyes, saw me--I suppose--for it stretched out its head towards me and not towards its mother; opened its mouth, whereupon I slipped in some moist- ened soft food on the end of a rounded an polished piece of wood prepared for this purpose, and the chick promptly "slipped itself over it" with a forward plunge. Brownie, who was standing partly over this chick, viewed the whole operation complacently and even bent down and gently picked off the particles of food adhering to the young