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the writer has met a strange for- 

 est bird which, from general ap- 

 pearance and its habits, undoubt- 

 edly belongs to the large group 

 of our brilliant tree climbers or 

 woodpeckers. One such bird ac- 

 cidentally was wounded during a 



est bottom of this Goeth ranch, 

 with its century old and imposing 

 large oak, pecan, hackberry and 

 other forest trees, and the grand 

 river sceneries encountered there 

 miles and miles around, lends 

 that section of our river bottom 



The Same Bird Climbing Around a Dry Hackberry Tree Stem 



late outing in a romantic river 

 forest valley, near the Judge C. A. 

 Goeth 's ranch, some fourteen 

 miles below San Antonio, where 

 the Salado Creek runs into 

 the San Antonio River. The for- 



an inspiring impulse seldom ex- 

 celled in any other of our many 

 famed natural park grounds; and 

 it must have been, in olden days, 

 a veritable hunting and fishing 

 paradise, as welJ as a prolific 



