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THE WILSON BULLETIN— March, 1922 
Oil May 6 I found yet another nest, with a strange company 
of occupants : one bird, which left the nest the next day ; one 
very young bird, possibly hatched the day before; and two in- 
fertile eggs. Here is another case where I might have discovered 
something, had I had the time. How interesting it would have been 
to see one set of parents attending the youth as he left the nest, 
and another set of parents attending the baby left in the nest! 
For I firmly believe, that if more than one pair of Koad-runners 
ever use the same nest, such was the case here. During the 
week following the finding of this nest I saw many adult Road- 
rniiners, but my time was largely taken np with the young birds 
at home, now fast growing into adults, and so interesting and so 
eternally hungry that it was only natural that they claimed 
major attention. 
On May 31 I found another nest with three fresh eggs (my 
latest date for fresh eggs) in a stretchberry vine growing about 
a dead tree at the brow of a small bluff, less than a block from a 
small creek. This nest was not supported by any limb of a tree, 
being loosely swung — if such could be — in the tangle of vines. 
The nest and sitting bird were quite easy to see from the creek, 
and it is surprising that someone had not molested her. I was 
able to approach her closely, and the accompanying sketch will 
give some idea of the interesting face that looked out at me 
through the lattice-work of the thorny vines. That this nest con- 
tained but three eggs as a complete set caused me to wonder 
considerably, especially when I remembered the huge set in my 
first nest. However, this last set of eggs probably represented 
the set of only one bird, and it is also possible that it was the 
second and therefore smaller set for the season. This set and 
nest I collected for I feared the open situation would only in- 
vite its destruction from other sources. 
A short history of the development of two young birds se- 
cured on April 29 will not be out of place here, though it re- 
peats to a certain degree former published notes. The nestling 
bird, be it ever so young, has an unmistakable cnckoo-like ex- 
pression in its face, though its eyes, upon which a good portion 
of the facial expression depends, are quite different from those 
of the adult, being of a deep dull brown with a bluish pupil, 
as in the case of the young of many other species. The eye- 
lashes are small, in fact scarcely apparent. Its whole external 
appearance is very sombre, and rather dirty-looking, as though 
the creature had been bathed in some unrefined oil, which had not 
