486 Mr. H. E. Dresser on the Birds of Southei-n Texas. 



birds are very wary. I found one in a hollow tree at the head 

 springs of the San Antonio E,iver late in April ; but it contained 

 young. 



I shot a Titmouse at Matamoras in August 1863, which I am 

 almost sure was Lophophanes inornatus, but unfortunately the 

 skin was lost with the rest of the specimens I collected there. 



Male. Bill black ; legs dark lead-blue ; iris dark brown . 



Parus carolinensis, Audubon. Carolina Titmouse. 

 Not uncommon in the neighbourhood of San Antonio. 



Eremophila cornuta (Wilson) (var. occidentalis, M'Call). 

 Western Shore-Lark. 



Erom October to the end of March the prairies near San 

 Antonio swarm with Shore- Larks, and great numbers are shot 

 for the table. When at Galveston in May and June 1864, T 

 noticed and shot several specimens; and though I could not 

 succeed in finding any nests, I feel sure that they were breeding 

 there. 



On comparing two specimens, both adult males, one shot at 

 Musquash, New Brunswick, in December 1861, and the other 

 at San Antonio in December 1863, I find the Texan specimen 

 much less in size (§ in. shorter) ; the bill somewhat smaller; 

 the back and wings much paler in colour; the crown jet-black, 

 instead of black dashed with yellow ; the forehead and line over 

 and beyond the eye dull white, instead of yellow ; auriculars 

 dull white, with a tinge of straw-colour, whereas in the New 

 Brunswick specimen they are yellow, and the throat of the 

 Texan specimen of a somewhat paler tinge. 



Chrysomitrts tristis (LiuDEeus). Yellowbird. 

 [Not uncommon near San Antonio during the summer-sea- 

 son. — A. L. H.] 



Plectrophanes ornatus, Townsend. Chestnut-collared 

 Bunting. 



Found in flocks, early in the spring, on the prairies near San 

 Antonio, but is not a common bird. 



Plectrophanes melanomus, Baird. Black-shouldered 

 Bunting. 



On the 4th April Dr. Heermann noticed near the town of San 



