ination (about 5:30). This included shoes and laces, hands, buttons, small button-holes, necktie and shirt, a hole burnt through my trousers by the head of a match, the bow of my glasses, the lenses themselves (the edges being "chewed"), my ears and teeth. I was well pecked over one ear and at last got the thing I was on guard against--one peck in the corner of my eye, though not a hard one. This bird was particularly interested in my necktie, climbing up on it so that its back was against my chin and pulling hard on it. When it retired to my knee to sit a while I teased it with my fore-finger to see if it would fight and it entered into the game at once. When a second bird climbed up to see what was going on, the first one, which was Cheeky, chased it away, following it into the bushes. July 2nd. At 5:15 A.M. I went to the glade, the earliest visit I have made. Everything was quiet there, but Cheeky came very quickly to get food from me. As I was due elsewhere in 15 minutes, I did not wait for further developments, and made no further observations on this date. July 3rd. Julio said that he had not seen the young birds in the glade yesterday at all, that they would not come to him and that he thought the old birds had chased them away. He understands that I am hoping to circumvent such action, though doubtful if it can be accom- plished. I went to the glade at 8:40 A.M. I could hear one of the young birds practicing singing not far away. Brownie came first, very friendly. Often when she has not seen me for a day, she is somewhat shy. The youngster that was singing entered the glade and was promptly chased out. I went out to observe what happened and Brownie came and jumped up on the dish which I held in my hand, but observing that it contained nothing but soft food, went off about 6 feet to dig, so I left. About an hour later I went to the glade. Cheeky (No.1) came almost immediately, jumped up on to the hand holding the dish of