May 4th. R absent. Road-runner not seen all day, and he was not at the nest about 10:30 A.M. The meat was not taken from the cage. The young thrasher is "taming himself", getting quite interested in human beings and does not mind visitors especially. At about 7:05 P.M. Brownie called from the nest and came to me without watching to see if his mate would take charge.(Sunset 7:02), I took advantage of the opportunity to ascertain that the nest con- tains three eggs, the usual set here. Nova arrived shortly--per- haps she was there waiting for me to get away. I needed a flashlight to see her, as there is a very short twilight in this latitude. B ignores millingI induced B to come to where the flies were milling around in their favorite spot, but he would not even look at them. The young- ster ignored them also. Brownie fed him and before leaving to lead the way to roost, Brownie, on invitation, picked a mosquito neatly off the back of my hand. He did not eat it, but threw it away with a flick. B led the way through the branches of the oaks, the young one following closely, to the acacia tree that he favored occasionally in the past on warm nights. (Present temp. 70--meeting this speci- fication). When last seen about 7:20 they were roosting not more than 2 or 3 apart in the same tree, affording the first instance noted at this place of an adult and a young bird roosting in the same tree. Incidentally it will be noted that Nova took the night shift, which I have suspected her of doing with the present nest. May 5th. At 9 A.M., on approaching the magpie cage, Circe was seen in the outer compartment, fluttering rather wildly when she caught sight of us, showing that the bird was not Rhody. In a half minute or so, Rhody appeared and watched her from the outside without offering to help her out of the dilemma. We moved back to allay