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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Apr. 21 Mayhaw Creek, 15 mi. W Bastrop, Bastrop Co., Texas
elm near road. This bird flew across road broad
nest. Then I heard vet vet vet from that quarter as
I started to follow, then sang peer peer answered by
bird south of where 1st & had been. This bird sang
again from just E of where I had seen it at 10:07. I
followed down brook come - he flew E I made called
taip & followed. I took one bird (sprayed with .38, the
bird called delh delh delh - then I shot him again); it
(♂, 586) fell into grass and I waited. Mate appeared
in tree a few feet away and I took her, 587, at 10:38.
This pair must have been the birds which "sang from
SE of nest" on Apr 8 and the ♂ of which tangled with
love ♀ S of pipeline on Apr 15. [I had paced and
estimated the distance through the elm - mesquite
from point of dispute to road at 275 yards.]