1041 came to the dining room window without invitation and looked in. It looks as if he would be easy to tame again. It is weeks since he has been positively identified here. (One exception?). This is evidently a tolerant period on the part of B. T's bill. This does not seem to be getting any worse. A's bill. The missing tip seems to inconvenience him little. He still sticks out his tongue occasionally, but the opening seems to be get- ting smaller. Nervous in presence of women. In the afternoon my sister and her daughter visited the cage. As soon as the road-runners saw them coming they became nervous and retreated into the inner cage and ran about, but were not in a panic. However neither would allow me to approach them for a long time, although Archie eventually calmed down and became quite tractable, Terry remaining shy. My sister had on a dress checked with red which she covered immediately on noting the birds' fear. This may have something to do with keeping the birds within bounds, although I do not think so. Before the visitors arrived I was rearranging the birds' sleep- ing place to give them more room overhead for their tails. (Sounds paradoxical--see sketch on next page showing arrangement). During all the sawing and hammering the road-runners had not been alarmed, in fact were climbing over me and actually trying out the new ar- rangement while I was still working on it, even repeatedly squat- ting in each of the corners and flattening their tails against the walls just as they do when settling for the night. (Sketch shows one of them in sleeping posture). As soon as the visitors left the birds returned to normal at once. Rhody kept out of sight, but the car had not left the drive- way before I found he had discovered where I keep the live mice (in the shop yard) and was trying to get at them,