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V. 



United States of America, 

 Washington, 28th July 1842. 

 The bearer of this, John James Audubon, is a native citizen of 

 the United States, M'ho has informed me of his intention of travelhng 

 on the continent of America, chiefly to promote the cause of science 

 by researches in natural history. He is known to me to be a natura- 

 list of eminent acquirments and estimation, a man of character and 

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John Tyler,^ 



President of the U. States. 



LIST OF THE BIRDS OF LOUISIANA. PART IV .^ 



BY GEO. E. BEYER, ANDREW ALLISON, AND H. H. KOPMAN, 



64. Roseate Spoonbill (Ajaia ajaia). The only locality in the State 

 where this species is now positively known to occur is the region about Lake 

 Arthur, in southwest Louisiana. Material collected in this locality in 1894 

 is now in the museum of Tulane University. Spoonbills are reported to 

 be resident in the Lake Arthur region. Their nesting places are in the 

 heavy river and lake swamps of Cameron and Calcasieu Parishes. Two 

 specimens were shot on the Mississippi River about five miles below New 

 Orleans in December, 1884. 



65. White Ibis (Guara alba). A common resident, especially in 

 swampy sections of the southern part of the State. In the latter part of 

 summer it is not an uncommon sight in the less settled portions of the 

 State to see long files or irregular flocks of this species, containing about 



> John Tyler, Tenth President of the United States, born March 29, 1790; died 

 January 18, 1862. 



2ForPartsI and II, see Volume XXIII, pp. l-l.'5, 275-282; for Part III, see 

 Volume XXIV, pp. 314-321. 



