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Sula piscator {Linn.). 

 Puffinus auduboni Finsch. 



St. Andrews. 



Mimus magnirostris nobis. 

 Galeoscoptes carolinensis {Linn.) 

 Mniotilta varia (Linn.). 

 Dendroica flavida nobis. 

 Seiurus noveboracensis (GmeL). 

 PCerthiola tricolor Ridgw. 

 Vireosylvia canescens nobis. 

 Vireo noveboracensis (Gmcl.). 

 Euethia bicolor (Linn.). 

 Icterus lawrencii nobis. 

 PElainea martinica (Linn.) 

 Sphyrapicus varius (Linn.). 

 Ceryle alcyon (Linn.). 

 Engyptila neoxena nobis. 

 Actitis macularia (Linn.). 

 Ardea virescens (Linn.). 

 Ardea tricolor ruficollis ( Gosse) . 

 Fregata aquila (Linn.). 

 Sula piscator (Linn.). 



BIRDS OF TOM GREEN AND CONCHO COUNTIES. 



TEXAS. 



BY WILLIAM LLOYD. 



The present paper deals principally with the avi -fauna of 

 the valleys of the Concho River and its tributaries east to the 

 Colorado River. It also includes the birds of the plains west of 

 the Pecos River, and north to the Texas and Pacific Railroad, 

 and some few noted incidentally south in Crockett and Edwards 

 Counties, and in Nueces Canon. The district has a general and 

 nearly equal elevation of nearly 2000 feet above the sea-level, and 



