(35) At 9:20 the birds had changed shifts. Green-eyes was digging and secured a large angle-worm, thus showing that they do sometimes eat these creatures. G.E. finally consented to eat a good, full meal of soft-food from my hand. He sweeps more of it aside than the other bird, but picks up the crumbs in the same way. 11:40. Brown-eyes is having an extra long session in the nest. I went up and watched her. She raised herself at intervals and poked around beneath her with her bill and made rapid shaking motions from side to side with her rear end while partly standing up in the nest, then settled herself gingerly with delicate movements as if an egg hovering [illegible] and working it up through her feathers to come in contact with her skin. She certainly looked like a bird laying an egg, but I did not disturb her to find out if she had done so. The rest of the morning I had no opportunity to look into the nest as one or other of the birds occupied it at all times. At about 2:40, Mr. Sampson and I went to the nest, and, after much coaxing, finally induced the occupant, Brown Eyes, to come down and eat, while Mr. Sampson went up to the nest before the other bird could get there, and there was the first egg! It looks as if Brown-eyes was the author, and that she laid it when I was watching her just before noon. This, however, is by no means certain. (Oct. 1933. Brown-Eyes is the male) March 9th. At 7:15 A.M. Green-eyes was on the nest and would not come down to eat; her mate, however, proved a willing substitute, coming from the "chaparral." At 8:15 Green-eyes was still in the nest and unwilling to come down; but her mate undertook to handle the food offered. At 9:15, when I again returned to the scene of operations, B.E., who now has a displaced wing feather, was sweeping the oval lawn light