188 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



22. Ajaia ajaja (Linnaeus). Roseate Spoonbill. 



Platalea ajaja Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 427 (Nueva Geronz, fide Gund- 

 lach). — GuNDLACH, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 195 (I. of Pines). 



Ajaia ajaja Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 88 (I. of Pines, in geog. distr.). — 

 Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 189 (I. of Pines; Poey's record). — 

 Cooke, Bull. Biol. Survey, No. 45, 1913, 12 (I. of Pines, ex Poey). 



"Roseate Spoonbill" Read, Oologist, XXX, 1913, 130 (I. of Vines, fide G. A. Link). 



One specimen: Los Indies. 



Mr. Link was so fortunate as to secure a fine adult of this species, 

 shot in the swampy country near Los Indies, October 3, 1912, Within 

 a few days of this date a few others were seen in the vicinity, all very 

 shy, however. Poey recorded the species many years ago, but the 

 supposition was that it had been extirpated, so that the present record 

 becomes of more than usual interest. The natives say that it breeds 

 in the island, which seems not unlikely. 



23. Guara alba (Linnaeus). White Ibis. 



Ibis alba Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 427 (Nueva Gerona, fide Gundlach). 



Guara alba Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 88 (I. of Pines, in geog. distr.). — 

 Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 199 (I. of Pines). — Cooke, Bull. Biol. Survey, 

 No. 45, 1913, 14 (I. of Pines, ex Bangs and Zappey). 



Eudocimus albus Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 188 (Pasadita and the 

 Cienaga; habits). 



"White Ibis" Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 6, 10, and XXX, 1913, 123 (Nuevas 

 River); XXVIII, 1911, 13, and XXX, 1913, 130 (I. of Pines), 125 (Santa Bar- 

 bara), 164 (Santa Barbara to Nueva Gerona), 168 (Los Indios). 



Twelve specimens: Los Indios, Bibijagua, and Siguanea. 



According to Baird, Brewer, & Ridgway (Water Birds of North 

 America, I, 1884, 90), this species exhibits a range of individual vari- 

 ation in size not exceeded by that in any member of the family. The 

 examination of a series of carefully sexed specimens from various 

 sections shows that this difference is not individual, but sexual, males 

 being decidedly larger than females, the bill especially. Audubon 

 (Ornithological Biography, III, 1835, 176) remarks that the male has 

 five outer primaries tipped with black, while the female has but foiir 

 thus marked, these figures holding good with but four exceptions in a 

 series of one hundred individuals examined (the exceptions being 

 very old females, which were like the males). Not one of the speci- 

 mens before me, however, shows more than four primaries with dark 

 tips, while two specimens, both females, have but three. Most of the 

 Isle of Pines series are immature birds, with the dusky-spotted head 



