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The Wilson Bulletin — No. 87 



Early in the afternoon we arrived at Mr. Green's camp 

 beside one of the finest rookeries to be found in Florida, an 

 imposing one even in these days of diminishing bird life. 

 Here is no doubt the largest nesting colony of Wood Ibis in 

 the State, probably not less than 5,000 pairs of birds. Per- 

 haps 300 American Egrets were nesting here, and a little 

 handful, not more than a dozen pairs, of the beautiful 



WHITE IBIS AT NEST 

 Photo by O. B. Baynard 



Roseate Spoonbill, which I saw here for the first time in 

 life, a memory that still recurs to me. That evening as we 

 stood watching the birds filing in from the feeding grounds 

 and circling over the rookery, I caught a gleam of pink as 

 one of the more distant birds turned in the rays of the 

 setting sun, and leveling my glass I watched my first "Pink 

 Curlew" circle slowly two or three times above the tree tops 

 and then drop down to its nest. 



