10 feet above the ground. I opened it and handed him the worms that he evidently expected. Julio reports that he stayed about until some time after noon. Plainly off duty. May 26th. Call at R's nest. Called at the road-runner nest about 11 A.M. A long tail was sticking up out of it vertically. Sat down and talked to the oc- cupant, who began to peer over the edge at me and then came down for meat, thus proving to be Rhody himself. While he was off I went to the nest. He returned unhurriedly and unalarmed, sat on the edge accommodatingly while I felt the two eggs still in it, then settled upon them calmly and accepted worms handed to him one at time. He behaves just like Brownie at the nest. Apparently both sexes incubate. Still 2 eggs. R behaves like B. Young thrashers leave nest. May 27th. Oddly, K.D. reports that the second brood of the year at Ban- croft's also left the nest yesterday. That is near Walnut Creek, east of the hills, in the "rain shadow" where the climate is of more continental type, with greater extremes. Two broods of thrashers here. R here and very tame. Plays with alligator lizards. The young thrasher of the first 1935 brood is still here, so that there are two broods here at the same time. (For the first time) Rhody, on his time off, arrived sometime before 2 P.M. I did not see him until I happened to go to the cage, finding him in there at the meat. When he came out he was very tractable and followed me like a dog by a roundabout route to the work shop, where I went to get him worms. I offered him the two alligator lizards, but he only wanted to play with them. (One of them had the other in its jaws). He would only flirt his wings over them until one bolted; then after a run of about 50 feet in which the lizard had a head- start of 10 feet, R caught him and tossed him up into the air about four feet. The lizard puffed himself out and showed fight. R