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In 1882 Mr. Sennett made a third visit to Texas, arriving at 

 Corpus Christi April 21, and continuing his work along the coast, 

 chiefly in Nueces Bay, till May 12. He met there Captain B. F. 

 Goss, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and had as his assistant on this 

 trip Mr. J. M. Priour, who remained for some years in his employ 

 as a collector in Texas and northeastern Mexico. Special attention 

 ■was given on this trip to the water birds found breeding on the 

 coast of Texas ; and although his work was very successful, 

 resulting in large collections of birds and birds' eggs, and a well- 

 lilled notebook, he never published anything relating to it. 



Although this was his last visit to Texas, he did not relinquish 

 this interesting field, continuing his work there through collectors 

 employed by him to complete his Texas collections, he having 

 early formed the plan of making Texas his special field, and of 

 eventually publishing a work on the ornithology of the lower Rio 

 Grande region of Texas and Mexico. In pursuance of this plan 

 he enlisted the services of Mr. William Lloyd, who collected ex- 

 tensively for him in western I'exas, in 1887. In this same year 

 he sent Mr. J. M. Priour to the region of the lower Brazos River, 

 and later to explore the coast region, or Tamaulipan district, of 

 northeastern Mexico. Mr. Priour made a wagon trip from Corpus 

 Ciiristi to Tampico in 1888, amassing large collections, which 

 tlirew much light on the faunal character of this then little known 

 region, and helped to establish the boundaries of tlie Tamaulipan 

 Fauna. As the country about Tampico proved very unhealthful, 

 Mr. Priour nearly lost his life there from a tropical fever. The 

 next season, 1889, to enable him to recuperate and to continue 

 his work in a more salubrious region, Mr. Sennett sent him to the 

 eastern base of the Sierra Madra, where for several months he 

 collected in the vicinity of Monterey. The results of these im- 

 portant expeditions unfortunately still remain unpublished. It 

 was Mr. Sennett's intention to work up this material and publish 

 thereon at the earliest opportunity, but each year business exac- 

 tions demanded more and more of his time and strength, so that 

 he never obtained the necessary leisure to enable him to seriously 

 or consecutively take up the task, which he looked upon as merely 

 preliminary to his contemplated great work upon the ornithology 

 of the Rio Grande region. 



