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At Houston I got horse & buggy & drove out 5 or 6 miles onto big prairie to NW & took some photos of the prairie & surrounding strips & groves of pine & oak woods, with just prairie grass & cornflowers & rudbeckies in foreground.

Also ome good views of oaks & pines hung with Spanish moss.

Had a little visit with H. P. Atwater

I was surprised to find a family of old & young scissortail flycatchers at home along the fences on the prairie and for the first time on this trip the Chondestes were common.

A single scrubby tree of Prosopis Juliflora was seen in the edge of town & several P. pubescens, small trees that I suspect had been planted, but as they were doing well & bearing beans they suggest a dryness of climate not found farther east.

Transcription Notes:
"rudbeckies" = Rudbeckia = coneflowers. I changed "single scrub by tree" to "single scrubby tree"