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Wm B. Richardson
1935
General Account
7
Unidentified bird, probably a duck
or grebe.
1 Rurograthus.
1 Skink (old tail only)
1 femuseule Cricket
The owl stomach I did not
examine.
Yesterday evening father
went to Mr. Giggett home to have
a talk with him. He had
evidently taken too much of
the Christmas spirits internally.
He would not talk in an
intelligent way, would not
listen to reason and worst
of all thought he knew
it all about the relationship
of hawks and quail. He
was proud of the pile
of hawks and owls he had
seized in his back yard.
He showed them to father, and
said that there were 7 & 8 narrow
Hawks besides the other
hawks such as the
Red-tailed (about 3), Sharp shinned
& Cooper's (about 9) and Long
Eared Owl (2). For these he
had paid a bounty and
maintained that he would
continue until he had
spent $1000.00. Father tried
to reason with him but