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quarter of a mile it kept an even distance ahead of the anto. never 
taking wing, at a speed of 15 miles an hour. 
After examining the stomachs of 80 California "roadrunners," 
Dr. Harold C. Bryant, of the Fish and Game Commission, has found 
instead of the eggs of other birds, nothing but insects, which were 
for the most part injurious to farmers. 
Astonishing feats of swallowing are performed by the road- 
runner. It destroys more hairy caterpillars than any other California 
bird — even the woolly-bear caterpillar, which few other birds will 
tackle. One roadrunner was found which had swallowed a horned toad 
an inch wide, another whose stomach contained four full-sized liz- 
ards. One taken in Arizona contained a garter snake 20 inches long, 
and a California roadrunner contained several young rattlesnakes. 
With this highly spiced diet, the roadrunner seems to need little 
water, thriving on the hottest deserts, and in captivity rarely drink- 
ing more than twice a week, and never taking a bath — except in 
dust. — The Western Honey Bee. 
CHARLES FREDERICK HOLDER 
There has been recently placed in the Reference Room of the 
Public Library a memorial tablet to the well-known Naturalist, bear- 
ing, along with a basrelief medallion portrait, the following inscrip- 
tion : "Charles Frederick Holder. 1851-19LS. Author, Naturalist, 
Sportsman. This tablet is placed here by friends of the naturalist 
who devoted himself to the preservation of wild game and sea life : 
who awakened the public conscience to the rights of bird and beast 
and fish, and whose work won at once the approval of sportsmen 
and the tributes of nations." 
Among the literary works of Mr. Holder may be mentioned : 
Elements of Zoology ; Louis Agassiz, his life and work ; Life in the 
Open ; Recreations of a Sportsman on the Pacific Coast ; Log of a 
Sea -^n^ler; Big Game at Sea; and All About Pasadena. 
RECORD YOUR OBSERVATIONS 
One of the first things for a would-be naturalist to learn should 
be the habit of close and accurate observation of all phenomena of 
