K Dixon 19.51 Journal 18. Mch 13 9 mi NW Bryan in Robertson Co., Texas. Mr. Wood thought that the more open woods represented the climax as a result of his own observations and the opinions of old-timers in the region. He showed me an "island" of prairie (now with some mesquite scattered on it) in the woodland. These patches of grassland exist on black soil in contrast to the sandy loam on which the forest grows. At the north edge of Bryan about 11:45 we picked up a dead Barned Owl on the road. We had not noticed it there on our way out to the study area 2 1/2 hours earlier. I made it into a skin and body skeleton. Mch 14. In area visited yesterday 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. See species acc't for Larus bicolor. I took only one bird, a & Cardinal (#482) which I took along a creek bed in tangled vines. The only new birds seen here today were Black Vulture and Red-tailed Hawk. On our way to the area, Wood and I stopped for coffee in Bryan and then met a Mr. [illegible], who owns the land on which Wood was working. He showed keen interest in Wood's problem and asked about each animal in turn and of Wood's findings on it. His mind seemed open to new findings but he showed a tendency to want to assign a value to each species and treat it accordingly. Wood, a student of Prof. Davis with an H.A. from A&M College seemed to know what he was about in the combined fox-deer-predator study. He realized the immense scope of the problem and that very