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K Dixon
1952
Journal.
Feb. 2. Atascosa County to Bastrop, Bastrop Co., Texas.
Windy during morning as we prepared to break
camps. I spent the period 7:45-8:55 watching
bitrice; see species account. Before leaving the area,
we talked with Homer W. Phillips and Tom Kennerley, zool.
graduate students from University of Texas. They had
set 29 live-traps for Resttown the evening before and
had caught only 7 animals. They indicated that this
winter had been a mild one.
We broke camp before 10:00 am. and drove to the
junction of hwyys. 346 and 173, about a mile NW Jordan-
ton. Here we turned NE on 346, driving toward San Antonio.
(On Hwy. 173, 2.5 mi. NW of the junction, I had noted a
few post oaks and black-jack oaks along the road).
At a point 2.4 miles SW of Potect, Atascosa Co., we
noted an area of extensive live oak growth. From
2.8 mi. NE Potect to 3.3, blackjack encountered in
an E-W strip bisected by hwy. At 4.5 mi. NE
Potcet, blackjack again. At 5.1 mi., Starlidge (E6)
seen beside road. Broad westward-extending
tongue of [illegible] (and some live) oaks on sandy soil
from 5.5 mi NE to 11.5 mi. NE Potect. NE of that
strip, few scattered leedwood oaks, then cultivati
and mesquite. We drove into San Antonio, bought
provisions and had truck serviced, ate lunch
and headed E out of San Antonio's. After a
brief visit with Mrs. El Eisenhauer at their ranch
home near Converse, we proceeded toward Seguin.