1583 Neo makes further progress. About 5 P.M. Neo was on the north fence. From the driveway in front of the garage (under the house) the fence can not be seen on account of the hedge. Yet Neo came up from the fence, through the hedge on top of the retaining wall and to Julio on the driveway, to get worms. His mate(?) followed part way. If she stays with Neo she will become tame by following Neo's example, just as Greenie followed Brownie's. Males bolder and more easily tamed? The evidence (inconclusive) so far is that the males are more readily tamed than the females, at least when adult and free. Thus Brownie and Neo tamed readily. Greenie, B's first mate, less readily. Nova, B's second, not at all. This new bird, yet unnamed, supposed to be a female, is yet an unknown quantity, but seems to have possibilities. It is really up to Neo to do his part, which so far he has. In fact he has done it all! (Thanks to that great civil- izer, the Meal Worm). Neo sings after sunset. At 5:10 P.M. (7 minutes after sunset) Neo was singing full song near the west fence. I thought I could hear another one reply. Notes on Coues' Description of Road-runner I dropped in on Dr. Grinnell this afternoon and, while look- ing over his set of Coues' Key to North American Birds, 5th. Ed., 1903, pp605-7, noted the following: Alternative names: Ground Cuckoo, Chaparral Cock, Snake Killer, Lizard Bird, Paisano, Correcamino, Churca. Of these the last is new to me. The drawing is the best I have seen, in any book, of a road- runner. G thinks it is from Brehm's Thierleben. (Must look up). Curiously, however, although the drawing is on a large enough scale for such a detail to show, there is no indication of the brassy ring about the pupil of the eye, which is the most characteristic and striking feature of that organ, nor does the text mention it. I was astonished also that such an accurate observer as Coues should state that the iris is red!! Unless this was a mere slip, he could never have seen a living road-runner close at hand, or else his color sense was defective. He says: They are singular birds--cuckoos compounded of a chicken and a magpie. Jan, 5th. (Sunrise 7:26, sunset 5:04). Thrasher song was heard almost continuously, from the west, from 7:10 A.M. until 8:40 A.M. Probably Neo. (Partly cloudy light north wind, 42°, at 8:40). Rhody's rising time was not taken, but he spent most of the forenoon on the west lot. At 11:15 I went to the hypothetical No-mansland between Neo's and Inver's territories, having heard no song since 8:40. As I approached the cork-elm a thrasher full-song was heard and a thrasher was in the elm; but this was not the singer, he was in the baccharis and soon appeared on top of a bush 15 feet from me, talking now. At the same time Inver was singing from his garden. Neo came to the sidewalk for worms. The bird in the tree shortly also came to the sidewalk, but never closer to me than about ten feet. She was well aware of the worm feast that Neo was getting and wanted to participate. Neo continued to talk to her and, at times when she was momentarily out of his sight, showed concern and looked for her, his talk seeming to change its tenor. Several times I tossed worms to her far over Neo's head; but despite his