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boxelder trees, while the right 

 side shows a huisache tree near 

 which is a fisherman catching craw- 

 fish and other bait. The dense 

 thickets of rounded trees along 



a Whip-poor-will, and it happened 

 this way: While looking, for 

 squirrels in the dense vines 

 and evergreen foliage along the 

 'river bottom, one of our party 



The Guachaho, or Fat Bird 

 (Photocopy by the Writer from Humboldt's Illustration) 



this river bottom are covered with 

 rankant vines of the mustang grape. 

 There are hundreds of such fine 

 sceneries along the river bottom, 

 and at this place the river-bed 

 was rather low by reason of the 



happened to see a strange bird 

 crouching in the shade on a 

 stump of an old elder tree. The 

 bird looked very much like a hawk 

 or some species of owl but the error 

 cleared up after a well aimed shot , 



Head of a Whip-poor-will, or Goatsucker Bird 



severe drouth at the time through- 

 out Texas. 



It is here also that during an 

 outing we came accidently across 



for it brought down a large Whip- 

 poor-will bird. After its removal 

 to camp and careful examination 

 of its reddish dark brown body an d 



