Identifier: ologistforstud341917latt (find matches)
Title: The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lattin, Frank H
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin

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apperals.And he drew his arm out as if he wasbringing out a snake, but instead hehad four as pretty eggs of the RoadRunner as ever were collected. I tookthe picture and still hold it as evidencethat four nearly fresh eggs of Geo-coccyx californianus, were collectedabout one fourth mile from Lajitas,Texas, on October the tenth, A. D.,1916. I traded the Top two bachelorbuttons for the set and after carefullyblowing them with a shingle nail anda syringe, mailed them home in acigar can and oatmeal. If any of you fellows dont thinkthat this is late, Im willing to argueit over. A EGGING ON THE BORDER. Of course one of the first thingsthat came to my mind as the trainpulled into Hot Wells, Texas, the trainthat bore a hundred as action eagersoldiers as eer reached the border,was the eternal question, I wonderwhat kind of hunting and birds thereare here. And after the long bore-some stay of twenty days at the Mus-tering Camp at Fort Sam Houston,Texas, we had at last reached the THE OOLOGIST 69
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Hi s_ro c CO 0) E 0) oO O ■a . TO(0 .(-I raro -^<u .. 11 3 ^ E 70 THE OOLOGIST border. I said to the Top Sergeantwho is a pal of mine, Gee! guy, Illbet theres eagles and hawks andwrens all over the mountains, andabout a thousand kind of sparrows inthe grass and trees and about a millionkind of birds that I never saw before,and the Top shot back, Yep, betthere is too, wonder if they have anyof those Mexican Parrots down there.So we journeyed on as eager as therest. And after the routine of makingcamp was over, the Top and I wereready to go out among them. Andso we did. Hot Wells consisted prin-cipally (and entirely,) of one AdobeHotel, one small store, two adobe andone cross tie dwellings, and a smallwooden bath-house, and lay on abroad valley formed by two ranges ofhills or mountains, ranging from onehundred to a thousand feet. The wordvalley usually brings to mind dif-ferent things than sand and then moresand, sparsely covered with cactus,cats claw, mesquite, shapperal, teran-tu

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