Paris April 1. Aransas River, 3 mi ENE Skidmore, Bee Co., Texas to tree tree tree for a while. I saw no evidence of feeding of the ♀ by the ♂. Both birds kept tacked by location notes. One, then the other flew to a small oak along a gully and I took ♀, then ♂. The ♀ (#523) had a shell-less egg in the oviduct, possibly having laid an egg earlier in the day. I preserved her ovary in Bouins fluid. Later I determined that the point where I took these birds was about midway between the bridge and the area where I took a ♂ (#498) from a pair on March 26. The pair taken here might have been the pair noted as noon on March 17 in liveoaks to the S. At 7:55 I walked W through the area where #498 was taken but was unable to get my bearings. I continued west to the fence diagramed on March 26 (the west fence line runs at about 235° compass). I walked along this fence past where I had taken #497 to a streambed, the second one of any size tributary to the Aransas on its S bank upstream from the bridge. I am now certain of my bearings and feel positive that #498 and 497 were mates. I started E along the fence then heard song “peer-peer” from N of the fence at 8:15. I followed the bird around after it came near when I squealed (gun left S of fence) I watched the bird for several minutes as it sang incessantly, a “Black-crested” type. Having failed to get a shot at a solitary bird on March 25 100 yds S of here & then seeing a Wmance ♂ alone, singing steadily made me believe that he was unmated. I went after