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numerous, and an increasing area is in cultivation every year, on 

 which are raised millet and sorghum for the winter use of stock. 



The prevailing wind throughout the year is from the south, 

 tempered in winter every ten days (on an average) by a brisk 

 norther that drives all the birds to the river and creek bottoms. 

 The temperatuie in winter, though once recorded as below zero, 

 is for December and January 35 in the morning, 45 to 70 at 

 noon, and 40 at dusk. The winter of 1SS6-S7 was exceptionally 

 mild ; the temperature has not gone below io°, and it sleeted 

 once, with a register of 20 . In spring the average temperature 

 is 70 to So° at noon, rising to 95 in April, and in summer 

 touches 102 . 



I have carefully hunted each creek with the sole exceptions of 

 Grape Creek and North Concho — the latter scarcely touched — 

 and have been to Pecos River four times, along the line of the 

 Texas and Pacific Railroad, across the sand-hills, and south into 

 Crockett County and beyond. After I became an observer for 

 the Mississippi ValleyDistrict I noted arrivals every day carefully, 

 as follows : — fall, 1884, Main Concho, near mouth ; February to 

 June, 1884, Middle Concho ; fall. 1SS4, South Concho and 

 Plains ; 1S85, spring, on Spring Creek ; fall, on Kickapoo, Lipan, 

 Main Concho, Middle Concho, and Plains ; 1SS6, fall, Lipan 

 and Main Concho, besides visiting all the other localities at vari- 

 ous periods. 



The record, besides including the following (about 240 

 species and varieties), should, I have no doubt, contain various 

 others noted north and south of me, as the Blackburnian Warbler, 

 Ground Dove, Prairie Falcon, etc., but as I have not been able to 

 record them for the last three years, with Messrs. Sennctt's, 

 Brown's, Goss's, and Ragsdale's (Colorado City) lists to guide 

 me, I have thought it best to make no remarks about them. 

 Whilst having no new species or varieties to describe, my list 

 considerably extends the range of the species named, while others 

 are frequently first records for Texas, as the Western Goshawk, 

 Wright's Flycatcher, Woodhouse's Jay, Black-chinned Hum- 

 mer (?), Townsend's Warbler (?), and Lewis's Woodpecker. 



I am under great obligations to Mr. Everett Smith, who first 

 kindly aided me in my efforts to locate birds of this district, and 

 later to Mr. Ridgway, whose time I am afraid I have considerably- 

 imposed upon by my frequent questions as to the status of species 



