643 food from me direct, though Brownie was not present to give them an example. These notes record the few efforts (the last being on the 11th.) I have made to tame these youngsters. As I was preparing to feed them, Brownie appeared and took command of the situation. At 10 A.M. as I entered the glade, both youngsters once more came running to me. Nova had just been seen eating from the soft- food dish for the first time and B was in the nest. Before I could test the tameness of the youngsters B came running with a bill full of soap-root fibres (20 more or less)and ran toward one of the young birds who faced him with open bill. I thought, surely B is not so absent minded that he will offer this stuff to his offspring; but he did more than that, he shoved it down his throat! For a moment the youngster looked as if he had a lean shaving-brush projecting from his beak, then shook the mass out disgustedly. It seems clear that B got his reflexes tangled up! I have not seen this sort of thing before. B then started feeding both youngsters with the coarse suet-corn mixture in large lumps. He is getting less discriminating in his selection of food for the young, or perhaps, he is "weaning" them. Once during the afternoon, B without coaxing, brought his family to me for food with two visitors standing beside me, showing increas- ing confidence of the young. April 15th. Nova occasionally inspects me at a distance of 20 feet or so, but for the most part remains out of sight. She carries a few fine fibres to the nest. Once B, on my knee, called loudly to her from that point of vantage, on seeing her approaching the nest: Prilly, prilly,prilly; peet-byouick; ca-dah-cut. A few moments before they had both been at the nest, quite talkative, B giving the hen call and several good imitations of