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          c. Cover control to influence food and shelter favorable to quail.

 
          d. Winter food of the bobwhite, scaled, and .-ambel quails in Texas.

 
   3. Ecological-wildlife relationships. 
 
         a. Food and cover rebources of wildlife in southeast Texas, 
               exclusive of the Longleaf area. 
 
         b. Effects of soil,-grazing, burning, clearing, and cultivation

               on game and wildlife food and cover plants. 
 
         c. Wildlife resources of second growth pine woodlands. 
 
   4. Life history, habits, distribution, and abundance of the gray and fox

          squirrels of eastern Texas. 
 
   5. Life history and management of the Attwater prairie chicken. 
 
   6. Present status and needs of vanishing species in Texas. 
 
       Probably one of the most interesting features of the Texas program

is the development of participation by other agencies so as to increase the

scope of the progrrm. Texas, being an unusually large State, as a large 
numberi of important problems. Taylor has successfully gotten special assign-

ment of projects and responsibility to other agencies. We realize certain

dangers in doing this, due to difficulties in exercising close supervision,

and the chance that agencies so selected may not be competent to carry on

the work, but we believe Taylor has exercised care in this respect and has

been able to increase the scope of his program materially. 
 
       The project on the survey and wildlife management plan for Walker

County is interesting in that it is attacking the wildlife problem on a 
county program basis. Sam Houston National Forest has cooperated in this

and a series of aerial photographs have been particularly useful in making

the studies in Walker County. During the past summer Taylor has given a 
major portion of his time to this project. The work has been handled 
through a series of nine field camps in various parts of the county. One

of the important functions of these camps, in addition to gathering data

and information, is their use as training schools for graduate and under-

graduate students. 
 
       The studies of results of introducing Mexican bobwhites have 
important application. The Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission has been

under a good deal of pressure to introduce these birds. Requests from 
sportsmen during the past few seasons have been for hen birds rather than

for mated pairs, following earlier introductions. It is felt that these 
introductions may have disturbed materially the sex ratios. Information 
produced by this project will be fundamental. The pen tests' will be checked

by field tests. Three isolated areas as nearly equivalent as possible have

been selected in the Sam Houston National Forest. One will be stocked with

native bobwhites exclusively, one with a mixture of native and Mexican bob-

whites and the other with Mexican bobwhites exclusively. One man is giving

full time to this phase.