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dow ledge and slowly approach the cage if I kept perfectly 

 still and remained several feet away from it. A few days 

 later a parent approached while I was fastening the cage, and 

 fed them in spite of my proximity. We did not succeed in 

 getting a parent to feed a young bird held in the hand. 



August 2, 10:15-11:15 A. M., 1:15-2:45 P. M'. 



I sat down a few feet from the cage in which the young 

 birds were perched close together. At 10 :15 they began to 

 chirp vigorously, and a parent flew to the window sill and 

 then flew away without feeding them. Three minutes later 

 it gave each little bird a blue berry. When the young were 

 first in the cage they did not seem to know enough to get their 

 heads within reach of the parent, but a few attempts were suf- 

 ficient for them to learn. Their later difficulties arose from 

 eagerness. They kept close together on the perch and pushed 

 against each other as if in the nest. At 10:45 the juvenals 

 began to chirp loudly and flap their wings when a parent ap- 

 proached with amelanchier berries, which it gave them. Af- 

 ter they had swallowed the berries they flew against the sides 

 and top of the cage. It seemed as if the parents were trying 

 to get the young birds out of the cage, for a parent flew back 

 with berries, but did not give the juvenals any at first. After 

 it found that they could not get away it flew back again to 

 the cage. At 10 :18 it fed them each ,a berry. The young birds 

 were back on a perch close to each other at 10:50. Ten min- 

 utes later a parent flew by to a neighboring tree, but returned 

 with amelanchier berries, which it gave to the young, the process 

 taking only fifteen seconds. At 11 :02 the juvenals were fed 

 blue berries and the parent bird was back again with more 

 blue berries in half a minute. In the afternoon I found the 

 young birds on their perch, moving their wings back and forth 

 and preening their feathers. At 1 :25 they chirped vigorously and 

 a parent flew to a nearby tree where the. third young bird was. 

 A minute later the parent brought amelanchier berries to them 

 and returned with more a minute later. At 1 :34 a parent was 

 back ag-ain with blue berries, and after the young birds ate 

 these, they were quiet for a long time. At 2 :05 a parent called 



