160 FIRST APPEARANCES OF BIRDS, INSECTS, ETC. 



3.45 The male, 3.52 the female, 3.53 the male, and 3.58 the 

 female fed young, one of which at least came to the mouth of 

 the nest. 



4.1 Cock arrived with what I thought was a whole crop 

 full of chammed up moths, that is what I took it to be. The 

 young were at this stage fed almost entirely by regurgitation. 



4.2 The hen, 4.8 the cock, at 4.9 the hen came to the nest. 

 At 4.12 I gave up. While I was packing up the gear the birds 

 came to the nest and fed the young as long as 1 was not 

 actually standing under the tree. Their movements are 

 frightfully quick and they are never still for a moment. 



13th June. W.P.C. took this bird in hand, and by dint of 

 adding additional tent poles to the tent and lashing three 

 5 foot poles to the tripod, and importing a pair of steps into 

 the tent to stand on to reach the camera, we managed to get 

 nearly level with the nest and only about 14 feet from it. 

 While we were getting all this safely and firmly settled 

 both birds came to the nest repeatedly and fed the young 

 whenever we were behind or inside the tent ; and since 

 these reputedly timid and wary birds did iiol seem 

 to mind our presence an atom, we concluded that they 

 remembered the same performance conducted last year. Picas 

 viridis is infinitely more shy and suspicious. (Here I digress 

 to say that to hoist the whole tripod camera and everything 

 to a height of about 14 feet from the ground in the way we 

 did, and yet get the whole apparatus stable, demands an 

 exceptionally powerful and well-built tripod ; I used a two- 

 fold Ashford 7ft. stand with a lOin. top, which is quite the 

 most powerful and rigid stand I know, the ample size of the 

 top being a godsend under such conditions). 



9.55 Male with moth (species?) and about 8 geometer larvae. 



10.5 One bird, could not see sex or food. 



10.15 Female arrived with a mouthful of larvae. I made a 

 noise putting up my hand to get at the shutter, and the bird 

 cleared off for about 5 minutes. (E.H.C. doubts this being the 

 reason why she cleared off and states that at this time he 

 was standing under a starling's nest in the immediate neigh- 



