Field notes, v601
Page 105
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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"