Mannerism like thrashers' Rhody wanted nothing more from me, turned his back on me and stared off over the country intently as if watching some definite object. He ignored alike offers of worms and flicking of his tail, but did not freeze. This is very like the thrashers when they consider my continued presence at the nest no longer necessary for the well- being of the infants. Nest insecure? This nest is already sagging at one side, not being so securely placed as any one of the three preceding preliminary structures. A piece of burlap has been incorporated into it. Judging by the semi-detached mass of twigs just below it, they had trouble in get- ting the platform started. June 7th. Call Brownie with his own bugle call. Brownie now comes to me when I whistle an imitation of his "A" song, or bugle call, almost invariably. 3:38 P.M. I was at the road-runner nest at 2:30 P.M. with a live lizard to determine whether Rhody would feed it to a nestling without partially digesting it himself and thus ascertain whether it would be in order for me to give them these reptiles direct in the future. In absence of parents, young plead for food on seeing me. Neither parent was at the nest. When the youngsters saw me approaching they stretched their necks toward me, opened their mouths and quivered their wings. I had not moved a hand toward them. Rhody comes with lizard. In ten minutes Rhody came with a much larger lizard than the one I had brought, passed indifferently within two feet of where I sat on the ground six feet from the nest, climbed up and pushed it head first into the gullet of one of the youngsters, leaving the tail and more than half of the body projecting. After that it was all up to the little fellow to do the rest, which he accomplished after somewhat of a struggle. Rhody then came down to me and took my lizard and gives the live lizard from my hand. He took no chances by playing with it, but disabled or killed it by squeezing it hard in his bill. R now takes my lizard and gives to young.