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of our sturdiest and toughest 

 trees — the Texas Oak should har- 

 bor so-to-say in its own body an- 

 other large treestem of a differ- 

 ent tree class — this is undoubtedly 

 a very rare, if not unique freak 

 of nature ; and I will endeavor to 

 relate the circumstances which led 

 to the detection of this unusual 

 tree conglomoration. 



Salado river bend, we came across 

 a large armadillo and some forest 

 rabbits — the latter hidden, but 

 chased out of some piled up forest 

 wood and dried branches; and, in 

 the neighborhood of these wood 

 piles we entered a densely grown 

 up place of all sorts of forest tree 

 underbrush and rampant vines — 

 looking for the armadillo, when, 



Charming River Scenery Near the Salado Rh'er Benm>, Below San Antonio 



About a week after describing 

 in the Texas Field (February is- 

 sue 1913) a remarkable forest 

 bird of the woodpecker tribe, my- 

 self and companions encountered 

 in the vicinity of the romantic 

 Goeth farm what seemed to be the 

 same wounded bird, described and 

 depicted previously. 



It was a fine, bright afternoon, 

 when, enjoying the grand forest 

 and river sceneries close to the 



all at once a number of the des- 

 cribed large woodpeckers were 

 also /seen. Some of them were 

 on the ground, and others high up 

 on the giant pecan trees and one, 

 seemingly wounded, fluttered to 

 a close by oak tree, and I managed 

 in presence of my outing compan- 

 ions, Mr. and Miss Haubold of 

 San Antonio, to prepare a nice 

 view of the bird climbing on the 

 oak gtem and seen reproduced in 



