Birds here today: These birds were seen here today (outside the cage), or heard Vigors wren, Red-breasted nuthatch, Wren-tit, Bush-tit, Plain titmouse, Screech owl (now calling), Ruby crowned kinglet, Hermit thrush, Fox sparrow, Green-backed goldfinch, Willow goldfinch, Pine siskin, Junco, Western robin, Red shafted flicker, Brown towhee, Spotted " Gambel and/or Nuttall spar'w. California jay, Golden crowned sparrow, House finch, Purple finch, Anna humming-bird, California thrasher (Brownie), Road-runner (Rhody), Quail. Night-hawk. These were all seen casually, no attempt being made to determine how many kinds could be found on the place. The list is typical for this season, but does not represent by any means all the kinds that are to be found here at this time of the year, many of which probably were here but not seen. (27 in above list). October 28th. Sleeping arrangements of the young road-runners continued to be upset. Archie took the hanging nest and Terry wandered about like a lost soul trying to find some place to sleep in the outside cage until long after his regular bed-time. He did not try any of the old places at all and ignored the temporary bunk made for him last night. He tried all of the exposed corners outside where there were perches, putting his tail up against the wire; a dangerous pro- cedure. Once when I held my hand up against the wire like a shelf, he promptly composed himself there for a good night's rest: tail braced against my fingers in approved fashion. This was perfectly satisfactory to him but awkward for me. By this time it was dark and he could not see well enough to continue his explorations. He was then moved over to the temporary resting place, but tried to perch on my glasses in the process, unintentionally drawing blood from scratches made on my face by his claws. There was no quarrel with Archie, who viewed these proceedings complacently from his comfortable bed. Archie would not even look at any of the other places formerly occupied. There seems to be a hoodoo on them. Humming-bird not at his roost. The humming-bird is not on the roost where seen the last two nights. October 29th. No change from the 28th. as to road-runners and humming-bird. B still has his "cough". Brownie still pips, but less frequently than when first noted. Probably he has a cold. October 30th. The lowest official temperature recorded on October 30th. in the 62 years during which records have been kept. (Min. here 43). At River Devotions 7 or 8° below) I have been raising the roof at one end of the road-runner cage 3 feet and in this space growing branches of Acacia melano- xylon and Acacia longifolia are to be brought from the trees at the end of the cage; this will give the birds choice of a roost in the branches. See P. 1135 A for photo of cage roof with these in place (Also Rhody on top of it)