on the road-runners attitude towards me. When Brownie comes for worms the magpies usually come as close to me as the wire will permit and watch operations keenly, their interest being, I think, undoubtedly in the worms. Often when I turn my head to look I find that the road-run- er is standing just behind them, also much interested. (Usually he keeps away from the magpies). But it is Brownie that he watches, craning his neck to get a better view and following him with his eyes as he moves about, watching him disappear into the bushes on his way to the nest and also his return. (On the afternoon of the 23rd. Dr. and Mrs. Grinnell, Miss Blanchard and Mr. and Miss Sumner came to see the birds. Brownie, though a little timid, behaved very well). June 24th. The road-runner is very much interested in Brownie; he is not ex- cited about it, but seems to forget everything else when B is near, getting as close as he can and watching with a bright expression, not at all hostile, standing within 2 or 3 feet of me, appearing to ig- nore me entirely, though I think he recognises me clearly as the Lizard Man. On one of these occasions this morning I went into the cage with two live lizards. Rhody immediately went to the shelf in the corner (where I usually give them to him) before I got there. (Usually it is I that arrive first--the approaching being done by him--the waiting by me). This time he permitted me to walk up to him, and when I held a lizard out to him, he took it at once, swallowed it whole and waited quietly looking at me, without retreating. The next one he took in the same way; so Brownie's example may be having some effect. Inci- dentally, on one occasion this morning when Brownie was getting worms from me, I showed him a lizard intended for the road-runner and he tried to get it away from me. At about 1:30 P.M. Brownie was hovering the young birds in the nest and did not leave it for more than two hours, though the young-