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112 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES.

ing in the hill and bushy regions
of the Martinez settlement, at the
farm and pasture of my old friend,
the lion. John W\ickland, I saw in
the midst of a dense post oak and
persimmon thicket, a large prairi,,
hawk, suddenly escaping with its
prey, a small cotton tail rabbit.
Only the torn up hide   and rein-

reiiadl-  beeil desclilbed anud pIioto-
illuts rated in the Tex as Fiiell and
olne S indav re('ceIly, I saw a very
heautifill hawk  esaling  from
w her  it had  its  meal, a very
young 1  eottontiail ra hit, amon
sonie of the cactus jungles aind
mesquite trees  alone' Mitchell's
lake and near one of the   small

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nants oif b)>iiies were left, and th le
hawk presumably had been feed-
ing on the carcass for a day or
two, as only small shreds of meat
were left on the bones, and all thei
entrails wer e absent.
Lately also. I had occasion to
witness such prairie hawks with
their prey-- lie of which had al-

lub1) hiolises. Wil I  icek shot
the ('seap)in]2 hiaxvk xxas w(onded
in one of th le w ing joinls, but it
managed (t t' lv u1) to a lower large
t ree braneih whire,  however, it
stayvel biut a few  miomlents, wheii
it flew. or rathlier fluttered  into
some high weedls below and( near
lhe tree. 11 was noti further mo-