ter-square. (There is reason to believe that there is some in- dividual variation in skin patches, although I do not know wheth- er females differ from the males. Immatures do. Also, since the skin is of crepe-like texture and may be stretched nearly smooth and taut when the bird is excited, there is variation in hue to some extent in any one individual. Perhaps also due to other causes) 5. The neck looks too thick and heavy, but it must be admit- ted that, in courting season, when the bird has prey in its bill and is about to bow and hroo, the neck does appear short and heavy during that action, although the feathers at the back of the neck then usually part some- what. This "thickness" then is but a momentary phenome- on, in my experience. 6. I have never seen a road-runner turn one foot out at an angle to the other as shown. This looks strange, al- though it may be correct. In any case it is an unusual posture. 7. The tail looks much too short. (Rhody's longest tail feather was found to be 12 3/4 inches). 8. The gape extends all the way back to the eye in our type. (In fact to a point below the eye). 9. For an inch or so below the ear covert the pattern of the streaks seems to me to be too nearly parallel to the neck in the picture. In our type there is distinct hor- izontality as if the feathers had been brushed back, with a decided whitish moustache effect from the gape. 10. In a bird so finely detailed, the eyelashes, I think, would show. 11. The streaking on the breast is more pronounced than in our type and the belly browner. Both areas are much less flaxen than in the living bird, but the hair-like appearance of the plumage of the under parts is render- ed with extraordinary fidelity. 12. The legs seem to be too far forward and the tarsi rather thick. 13. Going back to the head: The living bird is more "care- less" about its head-feathers. (Compare the Finley photograph of a roadrunner, page 76 of the Book of Birds, Natl. Geog. Soc., 1925 Ed.—a splendid likeness. Also Fuertes' caricature p.45 of the same book). June 4th. B's early song. Brownie's song, coming from the west nearby, was first heard at 4:25 A.M., the earliest yet. One youngster back. At 7:30 A.M. he had one of the young birds back in the garden. There is a decided tendency at present for him to occupy that port- ion of the garden west of the house. Rhody still works on 5-36. At about the same time Rhody was "incubating" in nest 5--36. Later, and at intervals throughout the day, he resumed work on it, sometimes getting material from inside the cage. A hanging rope forming part of the gear of the awnings of the cage, has attracted him during the past few days and he has repeatedly tugged at it as desirous of using it as part of his structure. Yet a piece of rope yarn placed near it, though occasionally picked up by him, has not been used.