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74 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES.
only a few feet off, until suddenly caught, the peculiar and loud sound
and swiftly as if by magic, it of cutting the air current with
spreads its long speckled wings
its wing feathers is heard a great
and off it goes, flying over our distance off.
heads in an erratic flight. It is a The photo herein of two such
most fascinating sight to behold bullbats was taken by the writer
how these lively birds fly with the lately during an outing along
swiftness of an arrow over the the romantic river bottom near the
prairie-plains-always, when hun
ancient mission Espada south of San
gry, seeking some waterpool or Antonio, and a separate original
rivulet, where lots of insects con
view of the landscape-also the
gregate. Often scores of them haunts of the red bird, mockingbird,
ROMANTIC RIVER BOTTOM SCENERY, NEAR SAN ANTONIO, THE HAUNTS OF THE RED BIRD,
MOCKING BIRD, WHIP-POOR-WILL AND OTHER TEXAS FOREST SONGSTERS
can be seen thus engaged, executing Whip-poor-will and other songsters,
all sorts of circular and angular is vividly depicted. It is a favorite
flying manuevers closely over the fishing place of San Antonians
water's surface, with aloud, screech
seeking recreation and nature obing
noise--aided by the swift servations along this shady and
movements of their wings (cutting historic rivulet of the metropolis,
and flying and rotating from and it depicts the peculiar and
one edge of the water -along a tropical vegetation on both sides
tank or creek, to the other; and of the river, the left part being
each time an insect is to be densely supplied with willow and
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Menger, Rudolph. Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscences, book, 1913; San Antonio, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14396/m1/74/?q=menger: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.