Allen humming bird occasionally was seen to add material to its nest; Rhody was as usual; the thrashers remained silent, aloof and continued to hover the chick. Ants again invaded the nest and were repelled with spray. Other road-runners. On the 22nd. I saw a roadrunner by the side of the road in Kettleman Hills, stopped the car and walked up to him slowly. He retreated to an atriplex bush, but allowed me to approach to a point where I could look diagonally down upon him at about 8 feet distance. He raised his crest and cocked head and tail saucily, showing his skin-patch colors fully. It was seen that the red back of his eye was much more brilliant than Rhody's-a bright scarlet. (This notes have recorded gradual dulling of this color on Rhody). This bird was not very shy and walked away in leisurely fashion. There was another one about a hundred yards away. The afternoon of the 23rd. I watched two road-runners foraging in the rough and on the fairways of the Los Angeles Country Club in Beverly Hills. One of them, not seeing me, approached to within 25 feet from behind a bank and then seeing me for the first time, crouched flat upon the ground, watching me alertly. It allow- ed me to approach to about 7 feet where I talked to it and tossed it worms, some of which landed on its back and tail; but while it look- at them curiously, it did not pick them up, remaining quietly lying on the ground for several minutes. It was noticed that the "white" stripe below the eye (present in all roadrunners of my acquaintance, but not shown either by Sutton or Brooks in their colored portraits of road-runners) was more conspicuous than in Rhody, Archie or Terry. When this bird decided to leave, which it did without haste, it raised its crest and showed it colored skin-patch for the first time; it was seen that its scarlet was also brilliant as in the case of the bird at Kettleman Hills. It went to join its mate (?) nearby and the two skirmished about a little and wandered off foraging and dusting now and then. These birds were heard to rattle their beaks sharply, but, unlike Rhody's usual rattle-boo, voice sounds appeared absent. At Kettleman Hills, I am told, roadrunners hang around the office of one of the large oil companies and pick insects which have been caught on the radiators of the cars standing there. (DDC). June 26th. to 28th., incl. During this period I was frequently away for several hours at a time. Thrashers. The single youngster is still in the nest; the parents are hovering him less, but one seems to be constantly nearby. Neither approaches me. Allen Hummer. Still incubating, but not infrequently leaving the nest for a minute or two. The male was seen for the third time near the nest for a few seconds. Rhody's "Requiem" It was found that Rhody adhered to the new phase of his pat- tern of singing a "requiem" for his mouse victim while holding it in his bill and lying in the house-nest. (Incidentally, for months, he has not been seen anywhere near his old house in the oak on the west lot).