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La< bt, Birds of KerrviUe, Texas. 



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near Sun Antonio and several forms of animal life are common there 

 that we seldom or never see near KerrviUe. 



Kerr County is especially interesting zoologically because it 

 marks the most southeastern extension in Texas of the Upper 

 Austral Life Zone, which occurs here as a narrow peninsula extend- 

 ing into the county from the northwest and surrounded on three 



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Map of Kerr County, Texas. Shaded portion indicates Upper Austral 

 Life Zone; unshaded portion = Lower Austral Life Zone. 



sides by the Lower Austral Life Zone to which belongs the larger 

 part of the plants and animals of the county. 



Among the characteristic birds of the Lower Austral Zone that 

 are here close to their northern or northwestern limit may be men- 



