130 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 



time frontier hnntsn:an was gen- 

 erally up-to-date in quick aiming 

 and hitting the mark — just like 

 our friend and Texas Field editor 

 — Colonel 0. C. Guessaz. 



With the on-march of civiliza- 

 tion, that great wild game lagoon 

 naturally has changed its environ- 

 ments and game capacity consider- 

 ably—and still it is today, besides 



resting plaf.'e, and the adjoining 

 cultivated fields at night time 

 serve to seek their food. 



Wild geesehaveoftenbeenhunt- 

 ed at Mitchells lake by our local 

 nimrods ; and the writer, with 

 my son Theodore also had the 

 pleasure to pop one down a few, 

 days ago (beginning of March 

 1913) at the old tule lake, and pre- 



MlTCHELL's L>KE ScENERY WiTH THE WiLD GoOSE KiLLED LATELY 



the Blue Wing and the Cassin's 

 lake, one of the most popular hunt- 

 ing preserves : and milliohs of wild 

 fowls congregate on this lake an- 

 nually in winter time ; and whilst 

 the migratory pigeon, the wild 

 swan and flamingo, the ibis and 

 the wild boar and peccarie etc.. 

 exist in remembrances only of old- 

 en days; pelicans, wild geese, and 

 the king snipe and others occa- 

 sionally seek this lake as their 



pared a photo of same, represent- 

 ing also part of the lake and scene 

 of action of one of our hunting 

 companions — a good hunting scene 

 of our old lake. 



We had already secured several 

 teal and spoon-bill ducks, when, 

 quietly rowing along the open tule 

 spaces at the south end part of the 

 lake — below the old boathouse and 

 oak tree blind (now both sub- 

 merged in the deep lakewater) of 



