(176) In the glade from 7 to 7:30.PM(The purple finches singing continuously-- also continually--during that time.) Both birds giving a final charge to the brood to which I added worms. Brownie gave them some soft food a little earlier. They are getting pretty big and are noticing things, stretching and preening. One of them pecked its mother on its need for food. the breast to attract her attention to [illegible] Brownie had a spider for them and Greenie unearthed another of those huge creatures over which they had a pulling match the other night. (I wonder if it could be a slug--but doubt it). This resulted in an- other chase, but Green-eyes carried it up to the nest while I was on the ground, so it remains unidentified. A few more angle worms today, but still overwhelmingly Jerusalem crickets. May 29th. I was busy most of the day in San Francisco. On my return I set up the movie camera 6 feet from the chair, with no film in it, in plain sight and in full sun to let Brown-eyes overcome her fear of its forbidding appearance and its noise. She behaved very well, finally becoming quite at ease while I started and stopped it fre- quentl y. I think she is now practically cured . At about 5:P.M., Julio said that the "Frasher" had been looking for me at the work shop, so I [illegible] prepared some soft food and went to the nest. Green-eyes was on it alone, but Brown-eyes immediately flew into it from some place (an unusual performance), came at once to the nest, climbed all over green-eyes and with one foot on his neck and another on his rump faced me 18 inches from the end of my nose, Greenie being back to me, the nest full of strapping big youngsters and the twigs overhead interlacing over it making it difficult for the adults to manoeuvre. When he saw the spoon of soft food, with However, by a tremendous upheaval, Greenie faced me too with one foot on the back of the nest and the other having turned one youngster's wing wrong side too on top of its own head, now stood on this wing and jammed the head hard into the nest lining. The youngster squealed and I took hold of Greenie's foot and moved it away.