often silent. 1:35 P.M. About 11:00. my sister, Mr. W.F.Sampson and I went to the glade, at which time neither of the adults was in sight. My sis- ter and I went up to the nest first and Brownie promptly appeared from somewhere and climbed into the nest, assuming the wooden Indian pose, where she becomes rigid and all in one piece, refusing even to wink and not looking very pleasant. When my sister climbed down, Brownie immediately "loosened up" eating anything I offered. This was repeated with one or the other of my visitors often enough to show that she objected to so many people about. Finally Greenie joined the party, bringing a large Jerusalem cricket. From past observation, I was quite certain that this would inject some life into the proceedings, which it did, but on my sister's approach, then the spectacle that presented itself consisted of five stiffly frozen birds glaring with wooden belligerency.(Passive hostility). We de- cided to out-wait them and before long both adults were taking food from me and feeding the young freely. Green-eyes got the last worm and, for some reason, froze. He would do nothing with it, but hold it in his beak, so I reached out and pulled it away from him, without his moving a feather or winking, although he looked pretty glum. During this feeding period, I called my sister's attention to the fairy chorus, which she said she would not have noticed otherwise. To us both it sounded as if coming from far away and was accompanied by no movement indicative of its source. Thus it appears that the ventriloquial habit of these birds(recorded of the adults previously in these notes), is an inherited characteristic and not acquired. About a half hour ago I again went up to the nest, Brownie being in the glade, but seeing where I was headed, also climbed up. She was, figuratively, all smiles, eager to eat anything. The nest- lings also regarded me with favor and stretched out their heads to receive the soft food offered them on my wooden "spoon", eagerly