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las and Green-crested Flycatchers and 

 Green Herons. Dr. Ralph took a shot 

 at a Wood Duck (Aix Sponsa) which 

 alighted in a ditch ahead of the boat. 

 He had his trusty 10 gauge double bar- 

 rel but though the range was not ex- 

 cessive he did not make a kill. Later 

 on he got a shot at the bird, knocked 

 it down but did not kill it. The wound- 

 ed bird dived and succeeded in evad- 

 ing us and avoiding capture by getting 

 away in the dense reeds. We saw sev- 

 eral other Wood Ducks later and I got 

 seven downy young which I made into 

 nice skins. They were very pretty, 

 being in the yellow, downy stage. I 

 think I got them at one shot. It 

 seemed a pity to shoot them but I 

 wanted them for the museum and they 

 would make a nice group. I found 

 Woodcock later but they seemed like 

 ghosts in the wonderful way they got 

 away without being secured. In the 

 evenings they would soar, rising high 

 in the air on fluttering wings and would 

 descend gradually. They were numer- 

 ous about the catjin. We proceeded 

 the rest of the distance and reached 

 Lake Drummond about three o'clock 

 p. m., having covered the ten or twelve 

 miles safely. We found a negro picnic 

 party at the lake and they were in 

 temporary charge of everything, and 

 very noisy but interesting. 



We were soon unloaded and com- 

 fortably settled in the little cabin or 

 hut on the bank of the Jericho canal 

 and within a stone's throw of Lake 

 Drummond. at a point where the Jer- 

 ico Canal interseats with Washington 

 Ditch. These waterways are very nar- 

 row outlets from the lake and reach 

 all the way out to the swamp's edge. 

 Their water is coffee colored and 

 choked in some places with sphagnum, 

 mosses and logs, but mainly open and 

 one can see ahead of them as far as 

 the eye can reach. There are several 

 beautiful bends, one called the horse- 



shoe bend, for the most part their 

 course is straight ahead and is un- 

 curved. There are several ponds of 

 water far back in the swamps and 

 there are one or two springs of clear 

 water, one on the southern end and 

 another at Jack's Camp — Old Jack, a 

 famous old swamper holds forth there. 

 J. W. Daniel, Jr. 



Tarrant County, Texas Breeders 



Birds that I have found breeding in 

 Tarrant County, Texas, are as follows: 

 Road Runner not common. 

 Yellow-billed Cuckoo common. 

 Belted Kingfisher not plentiful. 

 Downy Woodpecker, not plentiful. 

 Pileated Woodpecker nearly all gone 

 Red-headed Woodpecker common 

 Flicker, rare. 

 Nighthawks, common. 

 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, common. 

 Kingbird, rare. 



Crested Flycatcher, common. 

 Phoebe, rare. 

 Blue Jays, rare. 

 Crows, common. 

 Cowbirds, common. 

 Red-winged Blackbird, common. 

 Meadowlark, common. 

 Orchard Oriole, common. 

 Purple Grackle, rare. 

 Boat-tailed Sparrow, common. 

 English Sparrow, common. 

 Grasshopper Sparrow, common. 

 Lark Sparrow, common. 

 Field Sparrow, rare. 

 Cassins Sparrow, rare. 

 Cardinal, common. 

 Blue Grosbeak, rare. 

 Painted Bunting, common. 

 Dickcissel, common. 

 Summer Tanager, rare. 

 Bell's Vireo, common. 

 White-eyed Vireo, rare. 

 Blue-winged Warbler, rare. 

 Yellow-breasted Chat, rare. 

 Mockingbird, common. 

 Carolina Wren, common. 



