and carefully placing it inside. A half hour later when I returned he was shaping the inside with his bill and body. In taking soft-food from the hand, the female does so with the utmost delicacy and daintiness. There is no hasty scrambling and hurried gulping at all, and no throwing it about. It is in the form of a loose, somewhat coarse powder and must offer a great tempta- tion for gorging and messing about. She will occasionally make a typical thrasher side-sweep with her bill, but it is restrained and she will pick up all the crumbs which are spilled upon the ground in this way, one at a time, before going back to the heap in my hand. Her pecking at the food is done with such gentleness and precision that it is almost impossible to feel any impact of her bill. She can pick a minute grain off of my hand without touching the skin. I tried placing a meal-worm on my sleeve where the most convenient way for her to get it would be for her to walk across my hand and up my arm. She did this without hesitation or show of fear. Her plumage is sleek and entirely unruffled, with no displaced feather, Some of the feathers of her wing covert ( ? ) are bordered by a lighter shade of brown than the rest of the vanes. The pupils of the eyes are soft and dark. The irides are brown- orange, or orange-brown--very bright; but the general effect is soft and pleasing. The bill is almost black. Due to the activity and shyness of the other bird, it has not been possible to get them both together for a long enough time to make a careful comparison of the outward appearance of the two.