KDixon 1951 Parus Mar. 31. Spring Creek, 6 1/2 mi ENE Skidmore, Bee Co., Texas from mesquite growth in between 2 oaks & saw stopped. At 9:52 both (?) had moved W and a black-crested was calling vet vet vet from smaller live oak adjoining to N. It moved into large oak calling vet vet then plaintive set set was from branches on E side again. I cared so no bird here & other moved N and was silent. I cared see no cavity in branches on E side & am puzzled by this incident. CLOUDS MOVING IN FROM S at 9:00. I walked W to what apparently was the junction of two forks of Spring Creek, then N along the branch I had been working on, through the livesake to the road where I was parked. On the E bank about 75 ft S of the road at 9:17 I started to whistle and must have startled a towmouse in so doing. This bird in a continuous canopy of liveoak foliage gave a call see dub dub dub dub (repeated twice) then moved S in front of me calling set infrequently. The bird apparently was alone. Aransas River, 5 1/2 mi. ENE Skidmore, Bee Co., Texas I drove along the pipeline roadway to theriver, a point about 400 yards downstream from the bridge, reaching this area about 3:40. I walked along the N bank to the first tributary, then up that creek 150 yards or so to the N then inland, crossing the creek at a broken wooden bridge and working downstream on the E side in mesquite, cattlaw and blackbrush. WINDY, birds little in evidence. At 4:10 I crossed to the W bank opposite where I had seen a singing towmouse on March 18. A flock of small birds was foraging