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80 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES.
ton disturbance and killing of surrounded by short brush and
non-game birds. There is abso
flower weeds, and the ground of
lutely no sense in it to shoot ani
the open space was covered with
numbers of rock fragments and
mals and hound or kill anv of our numbers of rock fragments and
rounded rock, imbedded into the
feathery tribe "for 'he mere fun ground, and nearly all the rock
of it." were of a bluish gray color with
I will now describe the regions various dark markings, and
where two bullbat nests we', among these rocks my search was
found, after attending some pro
rewarded by finding two glitterfessional
service at the extl tri ing and grayish spotted eggs of
southeastern limits of our cit\ beautiful marble color and which
One early morning, I took a 1loil were oval shape and larger than
stroll over a number of hilly re
our pigeon eggs.
gions close by the house. allo!lI Not having a camera with me,
NEST OF A "BULLBAT" ON THE GROUND (Original Photo in Situ)
the ridge of a hill, in search of I made a close survey and marked
a breeding bullbat; but only after the open space where the bullbat
walking a great distance along the eggs were found (in order to find
ridge of a hill covered with small it again) and a few days later,
brush and some open spaces of in company with a friend, we
the white limestone ground did I happened to find the same place
come across a breeding bullbat, again as well as another breeding
which fluttered in a zig-zag flight bullbat with the same type of
over the ground into a nearby eggs, located also in an open
underbrush. By mere chance I graveled space. I prepared a
had noticed the exact place the near focused view of the latterbird
had flown off the ground. normal size and a nice view of
It was a semi-circular open space, the first two eggs found-showing
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Menger, Rudolph. Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscences, book, 1913; San Antonio, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14396/m1/80/?q=menger: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.