(497) This puts a crimp in some of my speculation. November 3rd. At about 8 A.M. Greenie was on the nest, B came to the glade for worms, taking them to the nest. On his third trip I went to the nest, reaching it before him. G would not take food from me until her mate arrived, then they both ate from the spoon hungrily. G took some of the worms from B and fed the young (there are posi- tively three of them) herself. B, for some reason, kept going back and forth between the nest and the glass house. He has done this before. As long as he was near, G would eat, but when he left she stopped. In taking worms this time B crimped each one in his bill and dropped it in my lap. Then when he had prepared enough picked them all up again and departed. ( These are this year's nest, though now unoccupied, and are from the "chaparral" at a place where Spotted Towhee and Lazuli Bunting nests were thought to be, but not searched for. ) G at last takes 11:20 A.M. When Greenie relieved her mate at the nest and the latter departed, I offered her soft-food in a spoon.(She had just brought about six worm-like creatures that looked rather like meal- worms). For a minute or two she would not look at my offering, but finally took a mouthful and swallowed it. I then offered her a worm in my fingers. After a shorter interval she took it and froze, with bill straight up in the air. I waited quietly and then she fed one of the youngsters.. After that she took a worm for each of the other nestlings and would have no more. Her resistance is breaking down. I have dug up quite a few square yards in the last day or so and found practically nothing, except where the ground has been irrigated. Even there almost nothing is to be found save a few angle-worms. I offered some to Brownie, but he would take only one and that with little enthusiasm. This worm is decidedly a minor