I 20 Brown oh a Second Season in Texas. L-^I""'' 



"16S. Tringa Merula. Le Merle-d'eau. Wasseramsel. 



Tringa superne fusco-nigricans ; genis, gutture, collo inferiore et pectore 

 niveis; ventre supremo fusco-rufescente, imo ventre, rectricibusque nigri- 

 cantibus. 



Mus. Schaeffer. No. 68. 



Briss. Av. V. 252. 19. Le Merle d'eau. 



Linn. S. N. 12. 290. 5. Sturnus cinclus. 



Scop. Bemerk. n. 223. Die Wasseramsel." 

 On p. 49 of the same work we find : — 

 "161. Vanellus cafella. Le Vanneau. Gybitz. 



Vanellus cristatus, superne viridi aureus, inferne albus ; capite superiore 

 nigro-viridante ; crista nigra ; taenia infra oculos nigricante ; gutture albo ; 

 collo inferiore nigro viridante, pennis in apice albo fimbriatis ; rectricibus 

 decern intermediis prima medietate candidis, altera nigris, apice albido 

 marginatis, utrinque extima Candida, macula nigra interius insignata. 



Mus. Schaefter. No. 7. 



Briss. Av. V. 94. I t. 8. f. i. Le Vanneau. 



Linn. S. N. 12. 248.2. Tringa Vanellus. 



Frisch. Av. 213. Vanellus. Kywitz. 



Schaeflf. Orn. t. 69. 



Naturf. XIII, St. p. 215. n. 122. Der Kiebitz. 



Scop. Bemerk. n. 141. Der Kybitz." 



Washington, D. C, December 7, 1883. 



A SECOND SEASON IN TEXAS.* 



BY NATHAN CLIFFORD BKOWN. 



In the winter of 188 2- 1883, the writer made a second visit to 

 the village of Boerne, in Southwestern Texas, and devoted the 

 ten weeks subsequent to January 27, 1883, to field work amongst 

 the birds of the vicinity. Throughout this period the country 

 presented an appearance very difterent from that familiar in 1880: 

 instead of desolate expanses of bare earth, a green sward was 

 almost everywhere to be seen ; in the fields were rank growths 

 of frost-killed weeds ; and along the creek were patches of 

 coarse grasses and even occasional little sedgy morasses. The 

 creek itself, which during the season of 1S80 only at long inter- 

 vals accumulated a suflficient volume of water to flow with an 



* See Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. VII, pp. 33-42. 



