K Dixon 1951 Paris 4 mi. SW April 7 Barton Creek, 3/4 mi. W Austin, Travis Co., Texas Clean, calm morning. I drove out the Fredericksburg Hwy to the Gaines Ranch on which Univ. Texas biologists are privileged to collect. I was accompanied by a graduate student, Homer W. Phillips. The ranch proper is situated on the edge of the plateau where it is dissected by several small streamcourses. Vegetation of this hilly area was a woodland of cedar (Juniperus mexicana), Spanish oak (Q. texana), liveoaks, hackberry on the uplands. Along the creek bottom grew elms, hackberries and other deciduous trees. We spent about 1/2 hour prospecting in the area and found the Black-created Titmouse rather abundant in the uplands but found no birds in the riparian trees. Carolina Chickadees in uplands as were cardinals, Lark Sparrows. White-eyed Vires along stream. April 8. SUNNY, CALM. I reached the Gaines Farm at 7:00 a.m. and walked down to the creek bottom directly. I walked upstream in the elm grove where Phillips and I had gone yesterday. Two of the birds were carrying on a song exchange in an area of elm-juniper on a shelf at the base of the hill. I followed the S (Black created, forehead white) for 15 minutes, at first merely watching him; later unable to get close enough to take the bird. He sang peterpeterpeter intermittently once gave scold see va vet vet. He used elms as singing posts for the most part, often taking conspicuous perches. I left area at 7:40 walking S to path leading to farmhouse then N along the creek. At 8:00 I heard