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92 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES.
come to Texas to remain here figs and grapes are grown, and
over winter in the forest thickets in some places the owners were
or bushes of the prairie, in gardens, compelled to resort to exterminate
hedges and yards of inhabited them. As a rule, though, the
places. A majority however, re
mocking bird should Lj all means
main permanently here in Western be protected, as besides their brilTexas,
even if the weather condi
liant songs they destroy immense
tions are very unfavorable for quantities of injurious insects, such
other bird species to remain here as beetles, spiders, grasshoppers,
and during ice cold northers they ants, caterpillars and worms, etc.
are encountered out in the In San Antonio there is hardly
prairie conjointly with the bush any other bird specie oftener
I
MOCKING BIRD NEST AND EGGS INSIDB A BERRY BRUSH THICKET
(Photo on the Spot Found by the Writer)
sparrow, field larks, black birds; seen than our mocking bird, due
the red bird, woodpecker, scissor
mostly to the many fine gardens
tail bird, wren and others. During and public parks and the protection
such cold winter months they they receive especially during the
often gather in t h e yard and breeding time. In former years
even fly to the windows in search and even today, some of our
of food and protection. During Mexican population gathered quite
summer time our mocking bird is a large number of mocking birds
a welcomed guest of our gardens or "chilchontes" as the Mexican
and fields, etc., but sometimes calls them, during breeding time
they are also very molesting to for the market, and as a rule,
such gardens and gardeners where they take much care in rearing
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Menger, Rudolph. Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscences, book, 1913; San Antonio, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14396/m1/92/?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.