the day they only eat one meal. It is celebrated about five or six o'clock in the afternoon. Also that only one mari makes a trip for t[illegible] water in the evening. She takes with her eight or ten bamboo stalks and after filling them distributes them among the whole housewifery, rotating on other days with others. From February the third to the middle of February. This is merely the story of three owls. It has to be. Birds were very scarce in the neighborhood of the vil- lage of Kino. And it was at this point due, perhaps, to the scarcity of birds, perhaps to the heat, perhaps to overwork, perhaps to our all developing the fever, that we began to study the natives less and less and ourselves more and more. The result of this enchanting pursuit was the drinking of four toasts, in clear ruby cups of tea. The first two were to the damnation of the universe and to the American Museum of Natural Hist- ory. The second two were to the immortality of the universe and the American Museum of Natural History. Such heavy occupations must have their aftermaths. And as it follows that although we stayed in the village of Kino a considerable length of time, and although we learned to play three-handed bridge there with incredi- ble skill, none of us remembers what day of the month we left the place. Which being the case I will pass on to another date, the First of March; which is a date finding the ex- pedition with 816 birds representing 65 species, about