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318 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES.
tie, or rather, it resembles a baby
nursing bottle. The nest is built
in its flat side between the cactus
leaves, etc., about ten or twelve
inches in size, and about half as
broad. The eggs, numbering four
to six, are of white color, but dot-
ted throughout with salmonoid
specks." *
"Sennett found the eactus wren
first in IIidalgo, Texas, about onehuiindred miles bevotol the outlet
of the Rio (;rande, into the Gulf of
lexico, where the hilly regions
are thickly studded with cacti.
The nests always s were vtery laroe,
generally biilt inside the fig eac-
tus leaves, where they were easy
to find. It's song is very loud and
shrill" and Sennett noticed how
they gathered the seed kernels of
the globular ground (aeti, and,THE wYVRITER AND A FRIEND IN MIDST CACTUS JUNGLES INSPECTING A CACTUS WREN NEST.
(A SELF-MADE PHOTO, NOVEMBER, 1913.)
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Menger, R. Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscenses, book, 1913; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143558/m1/322/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.