case of my glasses in the outside coat pocket and pecked it thoroughly. Discovering that my higher altitudes were still accessible, it went up to my left shoulder where it reached behind my ear and tried to get hold of the bow of my glasses. It came down from there and sat on my folded hands in my lap, and pulled my cuffs and prodded up my sleeve as far as it could reach. Evidently I was impenetrable, so as it was a nice comfortable place in the sun and looked safe, it decided in favor of a rest, so it lay down on my hands and had a number of short naps, rousing at intervals to touch my hand very softly in different places with its bill and occasionally stretching to its full height to look over my knee to see what Brownie, who was now in the glade, was going to do, only to sink back again luxuriously. Fi- ally it got too warm and had to open its bill to cool of and was threatened with an attack of "sun-fits", so it left to join the other birds after being with me fully ten minutes. All this was entirely without invitation and with no showing whatsoever of timidity. When this bird joined the others, there was some chasing about in the bushes which Brownie initiated, but it looked to me as if it were all in sport. It should be added that I talked to the youngster while it made no special effort to keep from moving, in fact did was on me and [illegible] restrained my natural actions. I expected to receive a peck or two on some part of my face, as the bird examined it in an embarrassing detail and was within easy pecking distance most of the time, but nothing happened. Although these young birds are now 47 days old, as an average, there are still to be seen here and there occasional loose floating flecks of down. At a distance of twenty feet or so it is almost impossible to distinguish them from their parents. Their tails look to be full length. Their bills are still shorter than those of their parents. They still make the glade the general rallying place. When Brownie's tail covert are wet the quills of her tail feathers are conspicuous at the base also. After somewhat more than