192 IBIDID. 
Eudocimus albus, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 402; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 142"; Salv. Ibis, 1864, 
p. 887"; 1889, p.376"°; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 407*°; vi. pp. 379, 389"; 
Baird, Brewer, & Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 89"; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
xxvi. p. 89°; Salvad. & Festa, Boll. Mus. Torino, xiv. no. 339, p. 12”. 
Guara alba, Stejn. Stand. Nat. Hist. iv. p. 9”; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 171”; 
A. O. U. Check-]. N. Amer. Birds, p. 67 ™. 
Pure albus, primariis extimis ad apicem nitide viridi-nigris: rostro et facie nuda coccineis vel aurantiacis ; 
pedibus coccineis; iride margaritaceo-cyanea. Long. tota circa 22:0, ale 11:4, caude 4:0, culm. 6°2, 
tarsi 3°85. (Descr. exempl. adulti ex Chiapam. Mus. nostr.) 
mari similis, sed multo minor. Long. tota circa 23-0, ale 10°9. (Deser. femine adults ex Texas. Mus. 
nostr.) 
Juv. Supra brunneus, alis seneo-viridi nitentibus ; dorso postico, uropygio et supracaudalibus albis ; cauda 
brunnea, basin versus alba; pileo et collo toto fuscescenti-brunneis, albido striolatis ; faciei et gule plumis 
cano marginatis ; corpore reliquo subtus albo. (Descr. av. juv. ex Ins. Cozumel. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. North America, South Atlantic and Gulf States, north to North Carolina, 
Southern Illinois, Great Salt Lake, and Lower California, casually to Long Island, 
Connecticut, and South Dakota?*.—Mextco (Deppe & Schiede**), hot regions 
of both coasts1!, San Mateo, Tehuantepec !° (Sumichrast), Presidio (Forrer ”®), 
Mazatlan (Grayson), Guanajuato (Dugés!*), Matamoros (Dresser®), Tampico, 
Tamesi (Richardson *°), Actopam, Jalapa, Vera Cruz (ferrari-Perez *), Santeco- 
mapam (Boucard®), La Antigua (Trujillo 2°), Cozumel I. (Gaumer °°); Britisy 
Honpuras, Belize, Golden Stream Cays!*, Grassy Cay '* (0. S.); | Guatemata, 
Chiapam, Pacific coast (O. S.7); Nicaragua, San Juan del Sur, Pacific coast 27, 
Sucuyd, Lake Nicaragua !8 (Nutting), Momotombo (Richardson 2°); Costa Rica, 
La Palma, Gulf of Nicoya (£. Arcé?°, Nutting }°)—Amazonta 2°; Peru 20; West 
‘Inpres 2°. 
The White Ibis is found in the Southern United States, and its range extends to the 
interior of North America, as mentioned in the above summary of the distribution of the 
species. In Mexico it is met with in the hot regions of both coasts !, but, though we 
have specimens from various parts of that country, there is no evidence that it breeds 
there. Salvin noticed the species on some of the Cays of British Honduras as late as 
April; but it was not numerous either there or in Guatemala, where we only obtained 
specimens at Chiapam on the Pacific coast. Mr. Nutting saw many examples in 
the Gulf of Nicoya, in Costa Rica, and says that it was less shy than most kinds of 
water-birds. It is therefore probable that the White Ibis is chiefly, if not entirely, a 
winter visitor to the whole of Central America, as it is to Brazil and other parts of 
South America. 
£. albus breeds in immense colonies, in company with Herons and other water- 
birds. It constructs a nest of sticks and roots, more than a foot in diameter and with 
a flat interior, placing it on trees, bushes, cactuses, &c.; and Audubon relates that 
he found no less than forty-seven on a wild plum-tree on an island off the coast of 
Florida. 
