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21.
Mar 16. Beeville, Bee Co., Texas ie: gray "wolf", red "wolf"
[illegible] and "lynx" at least. She told of experiences
watching and hunting javelina in Bee County and of
the dog-hunters hate for those peccaries. She said
that "jolves" when pursued by a pack of hounds would
slip through a herd of javelina, whereupon the dogs
would follow and would be cut up by the peccaries.
She told of the nesting of White-winged Dove in Beeville
and of the former occurrence of Tophnut or Blue
Quail in the county.
Mrs. Cherry made some plans to negotiate to get
me onto the property of a Mr. Claude Hurd along the
Kansas River so I told her I would call at
9:00 a.m. on the morrow to hear the news.
Mar 17. (Foggy?) overcast, wind from S. I met the County Agent,
Mr. Jack Forgason, who suggested access to the
Kansas Creek through the Discoll property E
of Skidmore. He gave me a letter of introduction to
Mr. J. Corbello, ranch foreman.
I left Beeville at noon and drove to Skidmore,
Bee County. I past Mr. Corbell's on the road and
then drove on past his ranch to the
Kansas River, 5 mi. ENE Skidmore, Bee Co., Texas
As I approached the river on a county road which
leaves US 181 at the schoolhouse in Skidmore, I
noted that the brush and oak reproduction had
been cleared but that the mature oak trees were left
standing (Mr. Corbello later told me that they had been "chained"