Archie learns more. Archie's discovery that the worm box is the true Santa Claus has modified his tactics with me. After this great event he persisted for a time in jumping into my lap and staying there (instead of to my head or shoulder as usual) and scrutinizing my topography for the box. When shown it with the cover still on he now taps the cover with his bill apparently knowing that worms are or should be inside. He appears to learn quickly. Several friends whom A and T both know and are familiar with have remarked that it is Terry that comes to them and climbs all over them most; that Archie is more offish. I have noted the same thing in his attitude toward them, but curiously enough, with me he is. if anything, more confiding than Terry. At any rate he is usually the first to come and he takes possession of me for longer periods. August 27th. Terry losing tip of bill? At 9 A.M. it was noted that the tip of Terry's bill, suspected of being slightly parted yesterday, actually is so, and that there is a slight, although easily seen, depression running transversely in exactly the same relative position as Archie's final fracture. It looks, therefore, like the beginning of a similar affair. If T's bill does break off it will raise the point very definitely as to whether this may not be normal procedure with road-runners, the (Pe rhaps it was damaged juvenile hook being replaced by an adult one.(in the panicof the (25th.). Archie's upper mandible seems to have grown out somewhat. The difference in length of the two mandibles is almost certainly less. He now shows little disability due to the loss of the tip. Rose reaction. Both birds now run over the rose petals (which are still bright) indifferently. The scarlet penstemon is placed where they often thrust their bills almost into it. They are not bothered by it. There seems to be no constitutional antipathy to redness per se.