ing it completely through his bill, a deciduous sheath usually floating off. No oil was used, and no feathers were removed during this period. All parts of the body accessible to his bill were treated. He did not use his feet. At 11:45 he decided to come down and renew contacts with affairs on a lower plane. First a casual glance at himself in the mirror without display; next looking and listening at the place in the cage where the lizards ought to have been; next laying his chin flat upon the flag-stone in front of the mirror to determine whether it would make a satisfactory rest while he sun-fitted. For some reason it did not work out right, so he moved a few feet away, found the right place, settled down, pushed a clod or two out from under himself by sidewise thrusts of feet and composed himself in spread-eagle fashion. This use of the feet in pushing material aside to make a satisfactory couch is the nearest approach to scratching in the earth seen on the part of any road-runner at this place. It is a typical act of this bird. In performing it the feet are never moved from front to rear as in the scratching of the usual run of birds, but at right angles to the body. There is no pulling--it is all pushing. Usually the bird is already lying down and the feet can be seen only at the end of the thrust. If we consider the arrangement of the bird's toes: two pointing forward and two pointing rearward, it is obvious that his feet will be better scrapers if pushed sidewise than if moved in a fore and aft plane. Perhaps this is the reason back of this odd performance. A few minutes of sunning and Rhody decided to join me in the shade, lying beneath a rhododendron; also in the shade of an oak. The rhododendron (often called "Rhody") and the road-runner "just naturally" don't belong in the same environment, but at this place, through the agency of man, they seem reasonably contented in each others company. When I moved off at lunch time Rhody promptly followed, confident that my course would intersect the mouse-rat zone and that the wants of a hungry road-runner would be satisfied forthwith. And that, of course, is the way it worked out. Now man, who has arrogated unto himself primacy in the animal kingdom, and who has made all the definitions, prides himself upon the intellectual feat which he has accomplished in fitting a few of his fellow creatures into what he calls a "pattern" from which they have not mind enough to depart. This achievement he has trumpeted to the world through means of communication developed by himself and which have now taken charge of him and become es- sential to his very existence. Yet here we have one of these lowly creatures whom we patronize, who has, without self advertis- ing, without artificial aids or knowledge of the work of others, while still maintaining his physical and intellectual freedom, within the space of a few months of modest "research", success- fully, with no margin of error whatever, completely worked out the pattern (insofar as it interests and concerns him) of one of these superior creatures. This superior creature, to wit: myself, is so incapable of deviation from this pattern, that Rhody with absolute confidence, bases his actions upon that knowledge, and it works, not once, but every time! And to his advantage. Surely what brain he has gets results! About 4:30 P.M. two of us (G.K.D.) were sitting near the cage watching Rhody inside. He was mildly concerned about the presence of the visitor and hesitated about coming out. I was called to