to almost ready to fly. The second day some of the old Mar- 
tins came and continued coming all through the season out 
seemed always to go away before night and they did not feed 
the young ones. I put a light rope and pulley attachment to 
the box so it could be lowered at feeding time, at other times 
it was kept in position on the pole. We had fair success in 
rearing the nestlings, the youngest died and some of the older 
ones were soon strong enough to fly and they promptly di sap- 
first 
peared, several got into trouble on their flight so that fi- 
nally we had four left and then two of these flew away, the 
remaining two we felt sure were a Male and a Female. They 
became quite tame, would forage for themselves out for a long 
time were ready to come at meal times, they made the oox their 
home but after a while it did not have to be lowered as they 
would alight on a bush nearby and allow the man who fed them 
to come near enough for them to eat from a dish he held in 
his hand, they would at times alight on the dish and even eat 
from his fingers. At intervals adult birds, sometimes one or 
two and at other times quite a number would appear and the 
young pair would fly with them. I give you here my last notes 
for the season. 
August 19th. Two old birds came and flew with the young 
ones for a little while then, at about 8.30 A.M., all four 
flew away and the young ones did not return until 4.30, each 
