146 THE entomologist's record. 



Same nest. Time.— Morning. 



Date. — -June 21st, 1914. Duration. — 2 hours 5 minutes. 



Food. — Two visits by female. Unidentified. 



Same nest. Time. — Afternoon. 



Date. — June 21st, 1914. Duration.— 2 hours 35 minutes. 



Food. — Four visits by parents, three by 5 , one by <? ; no food 

 identified. Parents entered nest to feed. 



Same nest. Time. — -Morning. 



Date. — June 24th, 1914. Duration. — 1 hour. 



Food. — Two visits, both by J . She entered nest once, and fed with 

 her head in the hole once. Impossible to identify food. 



Same nest. Time. — Morning. 



Date. — June 28th, 1914. Duration. — 4 hours. 



Time.— 7.45. Sex.—? Food.— No food. 



Time.— 8.0. Sex.— 2 . 



Food. — Fed by regurgitation. E.H.C.'s note runs as follows : " She 

 fed the young five times in the following manner : — She held her head 

 straight up and extended her neck, and then retched and opened her 

 bill, and what looked like a cartridge or projectile of chewed up grey 

 moths camfe up between her mandibles, and as she shot her head for- 

 ward into the nesting hole the projectile slid forward toward the 

 mouths of the nestlings." 



Time.— 8.10. Sex.— J . Food.— No food. 



Time.— 9.0. Sex.— ? (?). 



Food. — By regurgitation. E.H.C.'s note is, " I was able to dis- 

 tinguish a very limp partially digested Lepidopterous larva." 



Time. — 9.40. Sex. — ? (?). Food. — By regurgitation. 



Time. — 10.45. Sex. — 5 . Food. — By regurgitation. 



E.H.C. then left for a while but later put in 1|^ hours further. 



Time. — 12.20. Sex. — <? and $ . Food. — Not seen. 



W.P.C. then took on observing for If hours. 



Time. — 2.5. Sex. — ? Food. — Not seen. 



Time. — 2.40. Sex. — 5 . Food. — By regurgitation. 



[Note. — Having been up since 4.30 a.m. we felt at this point that 

 we had done our duty by a pair of the most difficult and suspicious 

 birds we had ever had the misfortune to observe.] 



Observer. — W. P. Curtis. , Time. — Morning. 



Date.— July 5th, 1914. 



Place. — Same nest. Duration. — 2 hours 10 minutes. 



Time. — 11.30. Sex. — ?. Food. — By regurgitation. 



Time.— 12.20. Sex.— ? . 



Food. — Poked head into entrance of nest for three minutes, but I 

 could not tell whether she fed young or not. 



Time.— 12.24. Sex.— 5^ . 



Food.— By regurgitation ; took six minutes and gave all the food to 

 one backward chick. 



Time. — 1.25. Sex. — ? . Food. — By regurgitation. 



[Note. — As it had rained steadily since 7 a.m. I left the nest.] 



