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Least tern  25¢
Wilson tern  18¢
Black tern  5¢
big white gulls  18 all kinds, mostly royal

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[[underlined]] Corpus Christi to Kings Ranch [[/underlined]] 

[[underlined]] April 24 [[/underlined]]  Started for Brownsville, on road due west from Corpus Christi.  Traveled over beautiful flower covered prairie stretches & through chaparral and mesquite orchards.  Road soon enters a big pasture & then continues from one pasture to another by gates.

Stopped for lunch at Buzzard Motts, (or oura motts) (9 mi. from Corpus) then on over the same kind of country to Petsanello Creek & camped.

Came about 22 miles from Corpus Christi.

Photographed some stretches of flower prairie.  Killed meadow lark & other birds.

[[underlined]] April 25. [[/underlined]]  Found more prairie & open country.  Lunched at San Fernando Creek ^[[(10 miles)]] where the soil becomes more sandy.  Then on over more prairie & mesquite country to Kings ranch where we strike the Alice & Brownsville Stage road and turn south.  This is 50 miles west of Corpus & 35 miles south of Alice.  Camped at windmills 3 miles south of the ranch house in the big pasture.

Soil sandy, cactus & mesquite.

Transcription Notes:
Mott = (US, chiefly Texas) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm.