in so short a time. Instead of a "frayed out", half fuzz-half feathered bird I now saw a beautiful falcon with clean bright plumage and a general clear cut neat appearance. The little one seemed ashamed of its juvenile clothes too and could be seen sitting, on the tent pulling out the old fuzzy feathers as fast as it could. It would grab a piece of down brace its self and gave a hard yank and out came the feather. By this time they began to hop around on the boxes and liked to sit on top of the tent where the sun was shinning. They were very sociable and would come in the tent if they could and seemed much interested in the work but they were most interested in bird bodies or would get on to a mad of cotton or some other soft warm place and nestle down and go to sleep. One July 21 the large one weighed 26 oz. and the other 25 oz. They seemed to about have reached their full size as the