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Chipping sparrow. Wallace says that towhees and phoebes have been here for two weeks.

The birds in the house are singing quite freely now, though none of them have got
tuned up to the limit of their voices. Our female cardinal grosbeak, has a very pretty
minor song, wonderfully rich and varied. She is still the one firm friend of the Japanese
robin. An interesting development of the past month is the friendship between the Jap
and the chickadee, the latter actually condescending to preen the former, but making
such rough work of it that, much as the Jap likes attentions of this kind, she ca
can not stand it for many minutes.

Linus is very friendly

Pixie has apparently recovered from the trouble with his eyes, though they still seem
a little weak and watery. He ventures no flight as yet, aside from a few jerky flutters.
His staple food all winter, without exception, has been beef, pulped by scraping a
knife-edge, and it has seems to agree with him perfectly. He does not tire of it,
and he retains a fine digestion.

Found and brought home three cocoons of the cecropia moth.

Trostler telephoned that the nest of the prairie horned lark contained four eggs yesterday.

A slaty sky, a persistent south breeze.

Trostler and I went to the nest at 2 p.m. There were four eggs, and the old birds were poking
around near by. The temperature was mild enough that the eggs would not chill, so
we took more time than otherwise we would have dared in getting photographs of the
bird on or near the nest. We then took photographs of the nest and eggs in detail.
My photos of