(485) B does not want to go to test. I threaten him. He protests mildly. Inspects finger- nail. I shoo him away. Beat him to nest. He insults me by counting the eggs. Give G a good feed. B'S damaged feather. "The" fly has gone?. G joins B in glade, B protests. No young. and came to me for worms. I thought Brownie, following precedent, would immediately head for the nest, but instead of doing that, he jumped up to my knee and waited patiently for worms. I could imagine the eggs growing cold and waggled a finger at the end of Brownie's bill to make him depart, as usually any sort of movement towards one of these birds at close quarters makes them retreat, unless they think the hand contains food. The only effect this gesture had was to cause Brownie to open his mouth wide, so that I could look down his throat, and make some sort of a comment--the first directed at me for some time. He then decided to inspect my finger nail and I drove him off and headed for the nest as the surest way to make him take over the job of incubating. I won by inches, Brownie paused on the edge of the eggs the nest (evidently counting them to see if I had stolen any of them), then slipped into it, calm and unruffled. I then returned to the glade where I gave Greenie a good feed of meal-worms as a reward for her patient attention to duty. There were still three eggs, as there should be. They may have been uncovered for perhaps 2 minutes. The abnormal feather on B's left wing is still there. "The" fly has not been seen for several days. There is still something that bites the birds occasionally and makes them perform the grotesque antics previously noted. October 26th. No early singing or calling. (Temp. at 7:30 A.M., 52. Heavy fog). 8:30 A.M. Brownie was in the glade, Greenie on the nest. At about 9:45 the birds were at the same places. Greenie, however, suddenly entered the glade for her share of worms. Brownie protested with a hah. I went to the nest--3 eggs. Greenie came instead of her expected mate, but he came half a minute after and took over the nest at 9:50, remaining there for an hour and five minutes, when he was relieved without having called. Greenie, in approaching, repeat- ed the pewh call barely audibly. In the meantime she had had a good