a time. This may have been because he was not really hungry. He had taken a piece from me about 3 hours before out in the lot to the south, where he was calling. When he left he gathered twigs, breaking some to smaller sizes, and took them to the nest. R brings liz- At 2:45 he came to the cage carrying a blue-bellied lizard ; after a brief survey of the youngsters he departed, still carrying the lizard. He brings another kind of lizard. No tail-wag. Eats it himself. Terry avoids R. Takes refuge with me. R's bed-time. March 13th. Cloudy, chilly. No sunning. Curious resting place. Weather makes young docile. R brings lizard. Adds meat. Full courting gesture. Carries lizard to Scammells' Returns "empty" Courts young? Ignores mirror. A cloudy chilly morning (Temp.50) not clearing up until about 9:30 A.M. Naturally none of the roadrunners sunned during this time. Rhody hung around the dining room windows, beginning about 8:15 A.M. and announcing his coming by a series of loud boos. He left after about an hour, half of which was spent resting under an azalea subjected to a chilly south wind, in "double shade"; a curl- ous place for a sun-loving bird on a morning like this. The young roadrunners were very quiet and more willing than usual to be petted. Rhody was not heard singing (here) until the sun came out. At 12:20 he came to the cage with a very small blue-bellied liz- ard, which he evidently considered too small for an effective love token for he proceeded to add a lump of meat to his burden. Not until then did he use his courting tail-wag, facing first the youngsters and thereafter anything that looked to have possi- bilities. When he started off to the south west it was a foregone certainty that he would show it to himself in the Scammells' dining room window with tremendous side-sweep of his tail and po- sings. This bringing no results, he went straight up the front of the house, using wings and feet, to the roof via a second story balcony. This he did easily. On the roof he commenced to call, and an hour later was still there. He came to the cage again "empty-handed" at 2:40 and spent 35 minutes in watching and displaying for the young birds, but not using the tail-wag. If he had used it I would be inclined to think that he was really courting them. (Archie principally). Per- haps he was notwithstanding. The mirror is so placed that he has to pass it within inches when he walks up and down the front of the cage, yet , now, he almost never gives it any attention. When tired of this he went to the cage roof for a long rest and was not seen to come down until 4:45. He was nor seen working on his nest today, though I looked in that direction many times from where I was working on ht e new