34 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 



28. Mycteria americana Linne. 

 Wood Ibis; Cayama. 



Gundlach has recorded the Wood Ibis from about Cardenas and 

 from the Cienaga, where he writes that it lives in the extrcmest inner 

 'cayos' and visits the edge of the Swamp only with the coming of the rains. 

 I have seen a few individuals about the lake called Punta Gorda near the 

 mouth of the Rio Hanabana, and a few about the lakes in the saw-grass 

 east from Caleta Rosario on the eastern shore of Cochinos Bay. They are 

 very shy, and they will not be reduced in numbers until the Swamp is 

 drained, — or until the natives learn really to aim a rifle. 



29. Phoenicopterus ruber Linne. 

 Flamingo; Flamenco. 



There are still several colonies of Flamingoes about the Cuban coast. 

 There are a few in Nipe Bay, a larger number about the shores of Cayo 

 Romano, Cayo Coco and the Isle of Turiguano. There are colonies scattered 

 along the south coast from the Zapata Peninsula to the mouth of the Rio 

 Cauto, but they are extinct, I believe, in the Isle of Pines. Everywhere 

 they are occasionally killed for food. 



30. Mergus serrator Linne. 

 Red-breasted Merganser. 



Gundlach records a single specimen, bought in the Havana market. 

 It is now mounted in the Gundlach collection in the Havana Institute. 



