82 TEXAS NATURE OESEBVATIONS AITD EEMINISCENCES. 



fore seem to be the main breed- 

 ing season of the buUbat bird and 

 others of its kind, the "chuck- 

 will's widow" and the whippoor- 

 will bird. 



During a few days' stay at the 

 Geronimo farm in June I had 

 occasiou to encounter a whippoor- 

 willbird at very close range. It 

 was along a beautiful mountain- 

 ous precipice, densely overgrown 

 with cedar, sycamore and other 



mo soil with its solid rock forma- 

 tion, and a small rivulet graceful- 

 ly meandering its serpentine 

 course on both sides of the rock 

 formation downward and into the 

 lovely forests, seen on the pictures 

 in the extreme rear parts. And 

 here the whippoorwill was en- 

 countered one early morning just 

 after the sun had peeped over the 

 eajstern mountain ridges, and 

 cedar brakes, and spread its rays 



Mountain Scenery Near Gallagher's Ranch, San Geronimo, the Haunts of the Whip- 

 poor-will AND Other Forest Songsters 



mountain vegetation, that the 

 large dark brown chocolate color- 

 ed siongster of the mountain 

 plains lit close by on a broad- 

 leafed bush, and it had all the 

 appearance depicted herein, of* a 

 whippoorwill. 



The extra landscapes herein 

 vividly depict the peculiar Geroni- 



downward over the Geronimo val- 

 ley. 



I noticed, however, that animal 

 life in general and especially oui 

 prairie songsters, are exceedingly 

 scarce around those lovely hills 

 and mountains as compared to 

 the feathery tribe around and 

 close to our San Antonio. It 

 seems here they have more protec- 



