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96 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES.
its own nest of a few dried grass that they breed several times
helmets or leaves of the mesquite during the summer season, and
tree, and the photo of one such this explains the immense numbers'
nest with two young doves about during the fall and winter time
ready to escape the nest, illustrates when the young and older birds
this plainly. Shortly after these migrate to all directions over the
observations I related these facts country and locate in some field
to an experienced hunter and or pasture to gather their food.
close observer of nature objects, The young birds, those not able
and he tells me the same experience to fly from their breeding nest,
A PAIR OF YOUNG DOVES ON MESQUITE FORK, READY TO ESCAPE THE NEST
(From Nature, by the Writer)
and that he noticed the female often succumb during stormy weadove
building its own nest inside ther, or being destroyed by wild
some old abandoned bird nest. animals and vandals and snakes,
Such double nests of course give and occasionally, near farms, by
the breeding dove more shelter the house cat. When very young
and protection. the wild dove resembles closely
From the large numbers of wild the small variety, the so-called
doves throughout the prairie plains Mexican dove or turtle dove,'
during the long term of their though they are not quite as
breeding time, it is very plausible much speckled.
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Menger, Rudolph. Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscences, book, 1913; San Antonio, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14396/m1/96/?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.