her. She permitted me to disentangle her tail from some twigs by taking hold of it and moving it to one side and neither objected to my clearing away a few twigs which have interfered with them while in the nest. Neither froze and both watched my operations with interest. They both ate heartily of soft food and acted without restraint of any kind. Brownie got a piece of soft food in one eye which partly bothered her badly so that she finally kept it closed. When I reached forward to try and remove it, she cringed slightly and opened her beak, so I waited a moment and tried again with my wooden "spoon". This time she did not cringe and permitted me to scrape off the offending particle from the delicate eyeball, holding perfectly still during the operation, but not freezing. As soon as this was finished, to her evident relief, she resumed eating the food offered in the tin real spoon and so did her mate. This, I think, is the greatest exhibition of confidence to date. As a matter of fact I did not think any bird, wild or tame, caged or free, would permit a thing like this to be done without being held firmly, certainly by one person and, more probably, by two. The average human being will flinch under similar conditions, but this free, wild bird, except for the initial cringe, held perfectly still and permitted a wooden stick [illegible] to be scraped across its eyeball several times in succession! Believe it or not! 4:45 Got 1½ ft. (73½ to 75) of film. Brownie on my hand near oval lawn. Light not strong as sun getting low. (4" lens, using stop f 5.6) Dis. 9'6".) The young had been well fed just before and Brownie was not anxious to get food for them. About 5.00 she took up nearly the whole of the nest, crowding Greenie and the youngsters out toward the rim, the former hanging on by whatever he could, looking glum. The object in view appeared to be a nap, as she puffed herself out and closed her eyes.