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the female, who seemed to do all the weaving, start 
out for more, and “ straightway forgetting what manner 
of man he was,’ end in one of these curious song 
flights. Usually, however, he came with strips of bark 
or leaves and looked on with conversational chucks that 
I guessed rather than heard, as most of my observing of 
him was done through the field glass. After the begin- 
ning of incubation, which lasted fourteen days, he paid 
little attention to either the mate or the nest during the 
middle of the day, but frequented a thicket fifty yards 
away, where he whistled and sang from dawn until dark, 
but as soon as the eggs had hatched he was all devotion. 
At this time it was possible to watch from a concealed 
position, and to keep a record of his visits to the nest 
with food. On one day, which seemed to be a fair 
average, when the young were eight days old, they were 
fed twenty times between five and six A. M., eight times 
between nine and ten A.M., eleven times between 
three and four p.M., and seventeen times between five 
and six p.M. For the first four days there was no 
visible food in the bill of the adult, and the feeding 
seemed to be by regurgitation. After that, parts of 
insects could be seen protruding from his bill, and were 
given to the young in a fresh state. Beetles, grass- 
hoppers, and butterflies were all in the dietary, and were 
brought indiscriminately ; but hairless caterpillars seemed 
to be the favorite food. The adults are said to eat 
berries, but I saw none brought to the nest for the 
young. 
