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positively from the train except a few Sparrow Hawks & Circus & mourning Doves. As we go farther from Ft. W. there is more open prairie (not farmed) & groves of deciduous bur oaks become common. At Argyle there is oak timber all around & black oaks soon become common. Now it is alternately rolling prairie & small oak timber.
As we begin to strike the small streams flowing into the Red River, other trees are met with. At Pilot Point there are large maples, elms, & hack berry. Nearer the Red R. the timber becomes nearly continuous & of such trees as soft-maple, hicory, white ash, ^[insertion]] & popple; & basswood. [[/insertion]] besides the kinds before met with.
The Red R is not much of a stream but has a wide sandy bed much like the Platt. From Aubr^[[insertion]] e [[/insertion]]y [[Aubrey]] to the river the soil grows more sandy & Pocket Gopher hills become common. I did not see any along the R.R. from Del Rio to Aubry, though they probably occur. 
At Collinsville a drove of Condylura cristata went screaming through the oaks & reminded me that I had not seen the bird for nerly 2 years.
Crossing the Red R. into Ind. Ter.

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Condylura cristata is a mole so I have no idea what Vernon is trying to tell us in the last section -@meg_shuler