quented by A and T, Rhody, the opportunist, having gone again. Terry quite definitely avoided them and once, in coming unexpectedly upon a fallen rose petal, leaped straight up into the air in alarm. Archie, on the other hand, on seeing one fall to the ground, ran over and picked it up. Terry gradually became more tolerant of their presence, though once he leaped over petals in order to avoid them. The young road-runners, although I should not call them timid birds, are extremely sensitive to their surroundings. They are, necessarily, encountering a succession of new situations entirely beyond their previous experience. Some of these must be startling. When it was noted that, allowing for the disturbing factors mentioned, they were not greatly alarmed on second sight of the roses, although avoiding them, my first thought was that it makes a difference who has the red--a trusted friend--or a stranger. Doubtless this is true to a certain extent. When I showed them to them yesterday and they were frightened, they perhaps associated red with the bad time they had had shortly before, being still nervous. Today yesterday's experience perhaps had little effect. Without the evidence all being in, it would seem that their great panic was due to some such combination of causes as: (1) The presence of many persons moving about, some of them unseen; (2) High voices (like children's) near at hand emanating from a group near them containing strangers showing assertive colors in large masses never seen before and moving too rapidly toward them, one of the colors, red, being especially distasteful. In this connection it will be recalled that Rhody bolted whenever he caught sight of Miss Dougan with her camera even at a distance, so (3) perhaps moving skirts.