as long as their parents'. At 11:30, while I was sitting in the chair in the glade, Brownie jumped up on to my hand and gathered up a batch of worms for the nestlings. I got 2 feet of film. (1" lens, f3.5. Stop f8. Brilliant sun. Background of sage. Distance, 9 ft.) At 12:00 I got 4 feet more; conditions the same. The nest, due to insufficient support, has as feared, sagged alarmingly to one side, threatening to collapse and drop. Also forcing the young all to one side where they crowd over the edge in danger of falling out prematurely. While Brownie was in the nest I undertook a foundation job and now everything is level and firm. It is surprising how much more room is now available. 1:30. From 1.00 to 1:20 Brownie did her best to cooperate fully. She had just had a bath and was sunning herself out by the berry patch when she saw me go into the glade. Besides taking worms from my hand (jumping up from the ground in full view of the camera) she did a magnificent sun-fit for a minute or more, which, unfortunately I was unable to get as a tilt of sage was in the way and I could not move the camera in time. She paid not the slightest attention to the camera and wanted to hang around me digging and preening, but I could not manage the camera and steer her into the exact spot at the same time. As it was, the remote control [illegible] stuck at times when she was out of the field and I must have a lot of still life (unless there is a black smear on it which would represent me rushing to stop the thing). With the same f 8 stop and full sun I got (neglecting blanks, etc) 42 feet of Brownie, mostly on the ground, where I was myself, having left the chair. Unfortunately most of the background is about the same color as she, viz: brown, consisting of an accumulation of oak bark from dead limbs of the old oak.