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73. Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea. Burrowing Owl. — Seen on 

 migration in spring and autumn but does not breed here. March 4 to 

 April 5 and September 23 to October 10. 



74. Geococcyx calif ornianus. Road-runner. — Common resident. 

 Nests in March and April. Eggs usually 5 to 6, on one occasion 7. Some- 

 times one finds eggs in various stages of incubation in the same nest, but 

 not always, as I have found 6 eggs all fresh. The Road-runner makes a 

 loud chuckling crowing noise in the spring, and also a cooing noise that 

 might easily be mistaken for the voice of some kind of dove; it also makes 

 a sort of purring sound in its throat, perrp perrp perrp. 



75. Coccyzus americanus occidentalis. California Cuckoo. — 

 Common summer resident; average date of arrival April 20; earliest 

 April 9. Usually leaves in September but have seen it as late as October 

 19, when the fall webworm has been particularly abundant. The western 

 form reaches here its most eastern extension. 



76. Ceryle alcyon. Belted Kingfisher. — Fairly common resident. 



77. Ceryle americana septentrionalis. Texas Kingfisher. — 

 Fairly common, breeds along the Guadaloupe and its tributaries, also 

 along the Llano and Medina rivers. Took two eggs on May 29, 1907, 

 from a nest on Turtle Creek. The nest hole was about 2| feet below the 

 top of a little adobe bluff, slanting slightly upwards for about a foot, then 

 turning to the right for about another foot. The burrow was enlarged at 

 the end and the eggs were on a bed of small fish bones and scales, about half 

 a pint of this material. 



78. Dryobates scalaris bairdi. Texas Woodpecker. — Our com- 

 monest woodpecker. Took 4 eggs on April 14, 1902. This bird drums 

 on a dead limb of a tree at any time of year, if the weather is fine. 



79. Sphyrapicus varius. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. — Common 

 in winter. Arrives about the middle of October. 



80. Sphyrapicus thyroideus. Williamson's Sapsucker. — Shot 

 a male at the ranch on Turtle Creek October 24, 1898. This is the most 

 eastern record for the State. 



81. Phloeotomus pileatus. Pileated Woodpecker. — A large black 

 " Woodcock " used to be seen occasionally many years ago frequenting 

 the tall cypress trees that fringe the Guadaloupe River. From the de- 

 scription it probably belonged to this species. I never saw the bird myself. 



82. Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Red-headed Woodpecker. — 

 Formerly not uncommon in winter, and possibly once nested in a post oak 

 flat above Kerrville on the Guadaloupe. The trees are all gone now and 

 the place is under cultivation. I have not seen one of the birds for several 

 years. 



83. Melanerpes formicivorus. Ant-eating Woodpecker. — Fairly 

 common in winter in the post oak trees along the Medina-Guadaloupe 

 divide, and breeds. This is considerably the most eastern record for the 

 species. 



84. Centurus aurifrons. Golden-fronted Woodpecker. — Not 

 very common now, but resident all the year. 



