(461) invited her to "come up", which she did without hesitation, Greenie, incidentally, runnig over to see if it meant more worms for him. B's Flight feather- The white object proved to be the sheath peeling off of a new flight feather, which is about 2 inches long. Next to it is another new feather a little longer. I got her to come still closer, in my lap, so I could look at the other wing where a feather appeared to have been cut longitudinally as recorded in these notes. She permitted me to push it a little to one side with a finger-nail revealing the neighboring feather with something not quite right about it, but what, I could not find out, because, just at that juncture there was an uproar behind us, Brownie straightened up to look and bolted. What she had seen was a huge steam shovel being hauled by a truck and followed by three more trucks all in close formation apparently headed directly for us (on account of the curve in the street at this point) and this was too much for her. The whole landscape appeared to be approaching and roaring. Greenie fled also, but not until I had had plenty of opportunity to note that there appeared to be nothing abnormal about his wings. G shows no similar signs. Greenie began his moult later than Brownie. It is curious, but also in many voluntary acts, perhaps the majority of them, he seems to be behind Brownie in time. A notable exception is his throwing up the job of incubation at the first nest long before Brownie had lost hope. 12:30. I had not seen the birds for some time, so went in search of them without calling. They were not at the nest or in the glade. As I went through the orchard a soft call sounded behind me, so I sat on a wall and awaited developments. Brownie and her mate came out from under an Escallonia and began digging in the cracks of the wall 5 or 6 feet away, then to me for worms. After this they went directly to the nest and one of them spent several minutes in it shaping it. 2:08. I did not look them up again until 1:30, at which time I could hear undersong near the oval lawn. I went there and watched G backward in many things. Shaping nest