the impression that he is leading her purposely from place to place with a view to selecting a nesting site. Once he led her thus down into the canyon on the west, but was back again soon. It is not like the pursuit tactics noted on the part of Greenie. In this case B seemed to be inviting his new mate to follow. May 11th. No early song No early morning singing was heard. At about 7:45 Brownie was industriously sweeping the oval lawn with his bill and not interested in me. B shows where new nest is. I went to the glade and sat down. In a few moments he came running to me, jumping to my knee with a plaintive gurgle, ate worms and ran north from the glade, across the drive way to a small, dense oak. perhaps 40 feet from my chair. By the time I got there he was up in it placing twigs in a new nest! Nest NO.8 Unusual incident. About 8:30 I went out to see how things were progressing. B was busily engaged on the new structure, which is already taking nest- like form. I stood in the road about 15 feet away and showed him a worm He came at once, ate a few, and then gathered up a half dozen, placed them on the ground by my hand (on top of the bank by which I stood) prepared them as if to feed young birds and carried them directly to the nest. (The first incident of this kind noted). He then looked for some one to whom to feed them--in the nest--then came down, ran and flew off toward the dormitory tree and I did not follow. B gets his associations mixed. Speculation. This incident seems to indicate that Brownie got his reflexes, instincts, complexes, or whatever they are, badly mixed. But for the disappearance of the incipient family in nest 7 day before yester- day, he would have been busy feeding the young bird now. But that disaster removed such necessity and brought to the fore the nest- building instinct which he was engaged actively in exercising when I appeared on the scene offering worms in abundance. This was too