to a short distance, as if pursued by an enemy. The next time he pecked it fairly, with spread tail and wings, the effect being to drag the mouse nearer to him, whereupon B jumped straight up into the air as if in panic. This was repeated several times. I then tossed the mouse to him where he stood about 4 feet away, expecting that this would cause him to retreat in a panic. Curiously, however, he appeared to mind this less than when he moved the mouse himself. G. takes it. Greenie, meanwhile, wanted to take a hand and was much calmer about it. She and her mate argued a little about it, then she took over, not dramatizing the affair as Brownie did, merely flinching a little at first and finally hammering it in a businesslike way as if to dismember it. Gradually she worked it further into the bushes and disappeared with it, evidently with the intention of trying to eat it. However, we were unable to see the final outcome. The contrast in the attitudes of the two birds was very marked. B nervous and excitable; G,-though wary,-calm and phlegmatic. This is directly have been contrary to what might reasonably be expected, based on their observed attitudes toward human beings over a long period of time; though it does remind one that it was the "timid Greenie", of all the birds hiding from the hawk during the general alarm of Jan. 22nd., that first ventured out into the open, even if it was only for the purpose of joining her mate. G's timidity partly indifference. B returns to building. Early song. Site too crowded. Feb. 13th. There was a little early morning song. During the forenoon Brownie worked at Sta. C fairly frequently, but the exact spot which he likes the best is too crowded, even after the clearing that