2 22 Coale, Ornithological Notes from the West. |_ Hy 



Fort Davis, Texas, May i. The fort is prettily located at 

 the foot of some giant boulders that seem to have been thrown in 

 a heap some two hundred feet high. Panthers, Mexicans, goats 

 and Rock Wrens are about the only living things in the rocks. 

 In hunting for one of the latter I got close enough to one of the 

 former to see his glaring eyes in a dark cavern in the rocks. 

 Here I was reminded that I was nearing my native hunting grounds 

 by finding Hclmitherns vcrmivorus, Anthus pensilvanicus, 

 and Chelidon erythrogastcr, and added to my collection 

 specimens of Speotyto cunicularia hypogcea, Passcrina amcena, 

 Sphyrapicus varius nuchalis, Pyranga rubra coopcri, and 

 Salpinctes obsoletus. 



Fort Clark, Texas, April 5. Ten miles north of Spoflbrd 

 Junction. Luxuriant growth of large and small trees, bushes 

 and peculiar plants. One of the typical birds of this place is 

 the Nonpareil (Passer ina ciris). It sings from the top of a 

 bush in the open woods. Cardinals, Lark Finches, Mocking- 

 birds, Cooper's Tanager and other species were abundant. 

 Capt. Vinton, of the post, told me of his seeing a flock of 

 green Parrots with yellow heads at Fort Gibson, Ind. Terr., in 

 18S6. They lit in a grove near the post and staid fully twenty 

 minutes. No shot gun being handy they were not molested. 



Stopped long enough in San Antonia, Texas, to see the 

 principal streets. Noticed C/iondestes gratnmacus strigata hop- 

 ping about under the horses and wagons like 'our own' English 

 Sparrow. A little out of the city saw several Milvulus forfi- 

 catus on the telegraph wires, and at the rifle range ten miles 

 out, they were flying about over the shooters' heads. 



After a very pleasant trip, briefly outlined above, I reached 

 Chicago May 10, to find it chilly and raining. The migration 

 being late I had the pleasure of collectinga nice series of desirable 

 birds during the month, among them Turdus fuscescens 

 salicicola at Ravenia, Lake Co., 111. 



Here the writer would express his gratitude and appreciation 

 of the many courtesies extended by the officers of the Army with 

 whom he came in contact, having been taken into their homes 

 and treated like a brother, although a comparative stranger to 

 most of them. 



