(184) with a Jerusalem cricket and, after delivering his cargo, joined in eating soft food from the spoon which I held out. He was extremely hungry also, so that the two adults ate all of my local supply themselves. The young, meanwhile, were not much interested in their parents' doings, beyond an occasional peck at the hairs at the corn- ers of their mouths and once or twice using their elders' feathers as pen-wipers. They are well feathered out in exactly the same shades as their parents. Their eyes are dark and luminous. (This sounds like a bull). The down floating above the head feathers is darker in tone than the feathers and has a bluish tinge by contrast. Their legs are big and powerful. Their bills are showing more curvature but it is uniform with no tendency to hook at the end. Their tails are only about an inch long. They are so strong that if one of them decides to stand up and stretch, the whole mass of 5 birds heaves up in the middle until he pushes through. Their "squeal" is developing into the "hah" call of their parents and their fairy chorus is more distinct very and slightly coarsened. They preen quite a bit and show a tendency to tuck their heads "under their wings" when they sleep, also they occasionally reach out to me for food and if, with their assistance, I am not able to get it down their gullets far enough, at least one of them is able to swallow it. While sitting at the steps near the oval lawn about noon waiting for a rabbit to show himself again amongst the plants he has been destroying, there was a patter of feet and Brownie came to look me over. She tried several vantage points to get a view of what I might have in my lap and made several ludicrously inadequate attempts to fly up on me someplace, then mustering all her resolution, landed on my upper arm and walked down to my hand, where she found the worms she was looking for. About 2:00 I followed her up to the nest where she had just taken two angle-worms. Greenie was there ahead of