80 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 



ton disturbance and killing of 

 non-game birds. There is abso- 

 lutely no sense in it to shoot ani- 

 mals and hound or kill any of our 

 feathery tribe "for \he mere fun 

 of it." 



I will now describe the regions 

 where tv/o buUbat nests wero 

 found, after attending some pro- 

 fessional service at the extrfnie 

 southeastern limits of our cit> 

 One early morning, I took a Ions 

 stroll over a number of hilly re- 

 gions close by the house,, along 



surrounded by short brush and 

 flower weeds, and the ground of 

 the open space was covered with . 

 numbers of rock fragments and 

 rounded rock, imbedded into the 

 ground, and nearly all the rock 

 were of a bluish gray color with 

 various dark markings, • and 

 among these rocks' my search was 

 rewarded by finding two glitter- 

 ing and grayish spotted eggs of 

 beautiful marble color and which 

 were oval shape and larger than 

 our pigeon eggs. ■ , 



Not having a camera with me, 



Nest of a "Bullbat" on the Ground (Original Photo.in Situ) 



the ridge of a hill, in search of 

 a breeding bullbat; but only after 

 walking a great distance along the 

 ridge of a hill covered with small 

 brush and some open spaces of 

 the white limestone ground did I 

 corne across a breeding bullbat, 

 which fluttered in a zig-zag flight 

 over the ground into a nearby 

 underbrush. By mere chance I 

 had noticed the exact place the 

 bird had flown off the ground. 

 It was a semi-circular open space, 



I made a close survey and marked 

 the open space where the bullbat 

 eggs were found (in order to find 

 it again) and a few days later, 

 in company with a friend, we 

 happened to find the same place 

 again as well as another breeding 

 bullbat with the same type oi 

 eggs, located also in an open 

 graveled space. I prepared a 

 near focused view of the latter — 

 normal size and a nice view of 

 the first two eggs found — showing 



