that I offer them. I have not seen anything larger than a meal- worm given to the young of this brood. They are being fed without regurgitation. (Temp. 54--absolutely calm--sun breaking through). 1:30 P.M. (Temp. 61, wind shifting to the north). The stubborn Greenie will take nothing from me while in the nest unless Brownie is there too. Then she is a different bird. G feeds "fly- ing ants"? About 12 she carried a number of small insects up and fed them to the young. They looked like the "flying ants" that the rain has cased to swarm, although I did not get a good look at them. In any case, the thrashers are interested in them, as they have dug numerous small holes at various places where the "ants" are coming out of the ground. I noticed that the Argentines are attacking them as they come out. (Or perhaps helping them shed their wings; as they frequently come off during the struggle (?)) Termites? B's behavior in feeding meal- worms. A few minutes ago I offered a worm to Brownie on the nest. He then promptly ate it. The second one he took, and froze for perhaps a minute. He then backed out of the nest and tried to give it to the chick nearest me, but abandoned the attempt and fed it to the other one successfully without preparing the worm. (Perhaps when he froze he was trying to arrive at a decision whether he should risk feeding the unprepared worm, go to the ground and break it up, or eat it himself)! Thinking that it might be that the first bird to whom the worm was offered was the younger of the two, and therefore possibly not able to handle so large an object, I selected a small worm and gave it to B. This worked all right. B, considering the subject closed, turned his back on me and settled himself deeply in the nest with sidewise oscillations. No feeding by regurgitation there! 4:20, Greenie in the nest. I offered her a worm and, as it G holds worm 7 minutes. Thaws when B comes. dropped from my fingers, she took it and held it in the tip of her bill 7 minutes (actual timing), when she suddenly backed out of the nest and gave it to a chick. I looked around to see if that meant