200 Lacbt, Birds of Kerrville, Texas, [.\p 



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;iml Naias and buds, etc., of wild celery are the plant items, and 

 chironomid and hydrophilid larva the animal substances. 



" Four other species of ducks are represented by single stomachs. 

 'Pin- Goldeneye contained seeds of pondweed, water-lily, bayberry, 

 and bur-reed, buds and roots of wild cleery, and hits of water boat- 

 men, and dragonfly nymphs. Animal matter 6 per cent; vege- 

 table, 94; mineral 10 of the gross contents. 



"The Canvasback had eaten seeds of bur-reed and wild celery 

 buds. Vegetable matter, 100 per cent; mineral 00. The Hooded 

 Merganser contained dragonfly nymphs and caddis larva. Animal 

 matter. 100 per cent; mineral 'JO. The Blue-winged Teal had 

 many young snails, various insects, ami seeds of hnr-reed, pond- 

 weed, smartweed, and various sedges and grasses. Animal matter. 

 88 percent; vegetable, 12 per cent; mineral, 8 per cent." 



THE BIRDS OF KERRVILLE, TEXAS, AND VICINITY. 



in now vivo i u BY, 



The following list contains tin- observations 1 have made at my 

 ranch where I have lived since 1882. Being always in the woods 



and tields. 1 have had a good ehanee to get acquainted with the 

 natural history of the county. The ranch is seven miles south- 

 west oi Kerrville, in Kerr County, and about fifty-five miles north- 

 west of San Antonio. It consists for the most part of rough hills 

 and still rougher hollows ami canons, lying- at an elevation o( about 

 1800 feet, between the Cuiadaloupe River ami its tributary Turtle 

 Creek It is well watered by small springs, hut there is no consid- 

 erable body of water nearer than the river. 



The timber near Kerrville is mostly pecan, live-oak, hackberry 

 and walnut in the \ alleys, with some tine cypress along the main 

 river; on the hills occur cedar (Juniperus), shin-oak and Spanish 

 oak. In the eastern and northwestern parts of the county there 

 is a good deal oi tnesquite and the same sort o( chaparral as OCCUTS 



