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BEAKS, PANTHEES, ■ 



American tigers and wild-cats are occasionally met in the 

 unsettled regions. 



Flying squirrels and several other species are also here. 



Jack rabbits are less numerous than formerly, and so 

 are also two smaller species, once very common on the 

 prairies and elsewhere. 



I have thus glanced hastily at a few of the prominent 

 animals of the State, without attempting to group them 

 into families or give their scientific names. ■ 



GAME AjSTD other BIRDS OF TEXAS — ^PRAIRIE HEN", PINXA- 



TED GROUSE {CupidoTiic Cupido). 



In some of the northern counties (Clay,, Wichita, etc.,) 

 the prairie hen abounds. There we saw large numbers of 

 them in the autumn of 1874. Last summer, did not see 

 any on our route to El Paso and back to Austin. 



QUAIL, PARTRIDGE. 



Of these there are live species known in Texas. Bob 

 White, Ortyx Virginiamis, is quite common in nearly 

 every part of the State. Last summer, in going from Port 

 Quitman down the, Rio Grande to the'Hot springs, I heard 

 his well Icnown call. > 



Another species, Ortyx lexanus, much resembles Bob 

 White, and is common in southwestern Texas and in the 

 southern valley of the Rio Grande, and northward to the 

 Pecos. It is so like Bob White that it is often supposed 

 to be him. , 



Gambel' s partridge, Lophortyx Gamhilii, is occasionally 

 seen on the upper Rio Grande, in the neighborhood of El 

 Paso. 



Blue partridge, Oallipepla Squmaia, breeds in the lower 

 valley of the Rio Grande, and northward to Presidio 

 county. 



Massena partridge, Cyrtonyx Massena, is occasionally 

 seen on the liills of Travis county, and extends northward 

 to the Rio Grande in El Paso count}'-. Common on the 

 Pecos and westward. 



