Apr 8 Barton Creek, 4 mi. SW Austin, 500 ft., Travis Co., Texas sorg in elm toward base of hill. I encountered a pair in elm clump surrounded by juniper and watched them momentarily. One dropped into junipers (d) and I took the other, calling sit sit as it fraged (7, 537). I then followed its mate as it fraged in elm shrubs & juniper giving frequent location notes. I missed a rather long shot at it & heard no more of this bird. I walked N after 8:30 and followed a trail up a gentle slope, rock-covered. Shrubs appeared to be poison oak, Rhus trilobata elm, juniper, #410 = Berberis I heard exchange of song and worked across a clearing into an elm grove. Here one bird was singing hear hear hear being answered by peter peter peter to N. Songbird charged to that song. I stalked through underbrush and decaying juniper trees which had been cleared and saw mate of singer in tree and took her (5:38) It continued to sing and I took him also (5:39 d). Trees here predominately elm with Spanish Oak -(juniper had been cut) At 7:15 I walked N and located pair along a stream- course which drained from the W. Vegetation here was Spanish oak - Live oak (juniper had been cut, few elms). I followed this way pair as one bird scolded (?) enk enk over over the nasal vehement call of atricristatus. One fraged in jupiners upslope other 40 ft E in Spanish oak (this bird culled vet vet set sharply several times, received no answer and flew W into juniper thicket where other bird had gone. I was unable to locate them thereafter. Bobwhite Quail a few yards downslope (I flushed)