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THE OOLOQI8T 



Swan, of a female of the same species 

 in the Zoological Garden, at Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



TEXAS NOTES 

 Texas Bob White 



While on the Elkhart Dairy on 

 ranch out from San Antonio, Texas, 

 my wife and I were getting material 

 for some stories and also taking bird 

 notes. 1 could hear Quail, Bob Whit- 

 ing in the hay fields near the house. 

 The Johnson grass was all mowed 

 down and I thought these Quail lost 

 their eggs, by horses or cattle tramp- 

 ing on them. But after a few weeks 

 the grass was ready to cut again, so I 

 was running the mowing machine I 

 had about six acres cut down and was 

 finishing up on my last round when 

 up jumped Mrs. Quail and about fif- 

 teen little ones just big enough to fly. 

 It sure was a fluttering sight to see 

 them make their first flight and they 

 were lucky to be alive after the grass 

 being cut where the nest was situated. 



BIRDS OBSERVED AT EAST RAN- 

 DOLPH, N. Y. 



(B) indicates Breeding Birds of 

 this area. 

 Horned Grebe 

 Pied Billed Breeds 

 Loon 



Herring Gull Breeds 

 Bonapart Gull 

 Common Tern 

 Black Tern Breeds 

 American Merganser 

 Red Breasted Merganser. 

 Mallard Breeds 

 Black Duck Breeds 

 Gadwall 

 Baldpate 



Green Winged Teal 

 Blue Winged Teal 

 Pintail 



Wood Duck Breeds 

 Canvasback 



Scaup Duck 



Buffle Head 



Old Squaw 



American Scooter 



White Winged Scooter 



Surf Scooter 



Ruddy Duck 



Canada Goose 



Whistling Swan 



American Bittern Breeds 



Least Bittern Breeds 



Great Blue Heron Breeds 



Green Heron Breeds 



Black Crowned Night Heron (B) 



King Rail (B) 



Virginia Rail (B) 



Sora Rail (B) 



Florida Galinule (B) 



American Coot (B) 



American Woodcock (B) 



Wilson Snipe (B) 



Pictoral Sand Piper 



Least Sandpiper 



Red Backed Sandpiper 



Sempal Mated Sandpiper 



Western Sandpiper 



Sanderling 



Greater Yellow Legs 



Yellow Legs 



Solitary Sandpiper 



Spotted Sandpiper (B) 



Bartramian Sandpiper (B) 



Black Bellied Plover 



Golden Plover 



Killdeer (B) 



Semipalmated Plover 



Turnstone 



Bobwhite (B) 



Ruffled Grouse (B) 



Mourning Dove (B) 



Marsh Hawk (B) 



Sharp Shinned Hawk (B) 



Cooper's Hawk Breeds 



American Goshawk 



Red Tailed Hawk (B) 



Red Shouldered Hawk (B) 



American Sparrow Hawk (B) 



American Osprey 



American Long-eared Owl (B) 



