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182 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES.
marauding animals, as also a few of
the featherery tribe, including the
chaparral cock, occasionally prey
on birds' eggs and other foodstuffs
out of the ordinary.
As stated above, the armadillo
is mostly an insect and herb feeder,
and its native haunt is mostly in
secluded rocky regions, in forests
and jungle thickets where it lives
underground or in caves, and rock
cavities, and the writer was wit-
ness to several such haunts years
ago in the hilly regions of Sanfive young ones about a week old,
which appeared very attractive an(l
resembledl so miaiv miniature pigs.
When seen 1v nmy friendly, L'. A.
Haubold, all rapidly retreateld into
a large andl (el)p undeerground
hole, and a wi1e trail could he
seen along the artll mound the
armadillo had prelparedl in dli aging
the hole, andl leading through the
dense underl)rush among some
thickets of mustang grape vines
and pecan trees.
It was during a bright moon-
light night, some ten years ago,A CAPTURED AR Ia)In T.o: ST:N (GEi ONIT I; CAMP IN RiiEA,:
Geronimo in Medina County. There when several friemls and the wri-
as well as in thle rock regions at ter pitched their tent iln the midst
Helotes, Boerne and other western of an old oak ! tlhiicelt close to a
settlements the arm1ladillo still running stream. 'lim caup and
abounds to-day, but is rapidly the interior of thle tent was lighted
diminishing in numbers for rea- by a lantern, a,(nd whilst lhe b)ovs
sons stated. During an outing were enjoying a game of (lomino
last year summerr of 1910), we all at once the loud11(1 haring of a
came across a large female arma- dog was heard through the cedars
dillo on the river bottom, ten of the (Geronimo Vallev, anid about
miles below San Antonio, with a half hour later we 'ar(d the loud
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Menger, R. Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscenses, book, 1913; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143558/m1/186/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.