. Bird-lore . ther information, may be addressed toT. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary, 1974Broadway, New York City. Other Summer Schools The .\ssociation has also offered tocooperate financially and otherwise ingiving more general and elementarycourses in bird-study at several statesummer schools throughout the UnitedStates. We are not yet, however, pre-pared to give a list of those which will beopen to teachers, and all others desiringto take instruction of this character, inconnection with other studies. A fullannouncement may perhaps be made inthe May-June issue of Bird-Lore. Inthe meantime, how
. Bird-lore . ther information, may be addressed toT. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary, 1974Broadway, New York City. Other Summer Schools The .\ssociation has also offered tocooperate financially and otherwise ingiving more general and elementarycourses in bird-study at several statesummer schools throughout the UnitedStates. We are not yet, however, pre-pared to give a list of those which will beopen to teachers, and all others desiringto take instruction of this character, inconnection with other studies. A fullannouncement may perhaps be made inthe May-June issue of Bird-Lore. Inthe meantime, however, those desiringinformation on the subject should addressthe Secretary of the National Associa-tion. We are hoping by means of the fore-going plan to furnish opportunities formany of the ten thousand Junior AudubonClass secretaries to engage in systematicbird-study during the coming summer. 158) The Audubon Societies 159 WITH THE ARIZONA ROAD-RUNNERS By WILLIAM L. and IRENE FINLEYPhotographs by the authors. H I^ hissingsand curledaway from thewheels as weplowed throughthe wide washof the hours wehad joggedstolidly acrossthe palpitating desert around the town ofTucson. Nothing had stirred, until sud-denly across the white road, scuttlingfrom one gnarly cactus to another, slida slim, dark bird, with long tail and headlowered as if dodging the scrutiny ofstrange eyes. He became invisible in thesilence that reached out over the shim-mering mesa; but I knew we had seen aRoad-runner. We had not journeyed to Arizona justto discover this bird, but we should havefelt the trip was a failure had we not been lucky enough to see and study GeococcyxcalifonilaiiHs, Ground-Cuckoo, Road-run-ner, Mexican Paisano, Snake-killer, Cha-parral-cock, or, better. Cock otheDesert! The slim shadow came out again, skulk-ing from one cover to another, and makingfor the west end of the Catalina Moun-tains, which lifted their heights directlyout of the flat plain in front of us. How heslid alo
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