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[typewritten print; black ink] [top centered] - 2 - were seen feeing with Snow Geese in rice stubble. E.C. Krause reported them as common at the mouth of the San Bernard River in Brazoria County. These birds were known locally as "Brant." Anser albifrons gamble. [underlined] [indented] Four seen feeding in rice stubble near Markham Jan. 2. Branta canadensis. [underlined] [indented] Seen near Bay City Jan. 1. Fairly common near Markham and Simpsonville Jan.2. Flocks were feeding in pastures and in rice stubble. Branta c. hutchinsi. [underlined] [indented] A few were seen near Bay City Jan 1 and blow Markham Jan. 2. Ardes herodias. [underlined] [indented] Seen near Matagorda on Jan. 1 and 2. Grus americana. [underlined] [indented] Reported as fairly common at this season n the coast region from Matagorda east to the mouth of the San Bernard River in Brazoria County. [handwritten] None seen. [typewritten print; black ink] Grus mexicana. [underlined] [indented] One seen at Eagle Lake Dec. 25, two observed near Bay City Jan. 1. Fulica americana. [underlined] [indented] A dozen seen in a canal at Eagle Lake Dec. 27 Gallinago delicata. [underlined] [indented] See at Eagle Lake on Dec. 25 and 27. On the latter day birds were seen feeding in the open on soft and exposed along a canal. When frightened they ran ashore and hid in vegetation but soon came back again to their feeding sat- ion. Pisobia minutilla. [underlined] [indent] Two seen at Eagle Lake Dec. 27.