IBISES : Family Threskiornithidae [ 1 17 



without data. There is a specimen in the Biological Survey collection 

 taken by Vernon Bailey on July 5, 1899, at Tule Lake, Oregon, long before 

 Tule Lake had been reduced in size and confined to California, as at 

 present. Wardens stationed at Malheur and Lower Klamath Lakes re- 

 ported it as a rare summer visitor, most of the records being in May and 

 June (Malheur: Rare, one record between July i and 15, 1912., Lewis; 

 and rare, only one bird seen in 19x0, Benson. Klamath: Rare, Lewis; and 

 rare, May 2.1, 1913, one June 2.1, and two June 2.6, 1914, Furber). E. S. 

 Currier (ic^a) reported it from Blue Lake, Multnomah County, on 

 August 7, 192.7, but no specimens were taken. 



Ibises: Family Threskiornithidae 



White-faced Glossy Ibis: 



Plegadis guarauna (Linnaeus) 



DESCRIPTION. "Lores and eyelids naked, rest of head well feathered; bill long and 

 narrow, gently curved downward, grooved from nostril to tip. Adults: lores red; 

 face whitish; head, neck, shoulders, and under parts dark rich chestnut; crown and 

 wings glossed with iridescent purplish and greenish. Young: head and neck streaked 

 with white and dusky, and under parts grayish brown. Length: 19-1.6, wing 9.30- 

 10.80, bill 3.75-6.00, tarsus 3.00-4.40." (Bailey) Nest: Sometimes a floating plat- 

 form, attached to the tules, and at other times well woven into the tules a foot or 

 more above the water. Eggs: 3 to 7, usually 3 or 4, pale green. 

 DISTRIBUTION. General: Nests from Oregon and Utah to southern Texas and southern 

 Mexico. Winters from extreme southern United States to South America. In Ore- 

 gon: Known only from Malheur Lake and surrounding territory where northernmost 

 breeding colony is found. Straggler anywhere else. 



THE HANDSOME White-faced Glossy Ibis (Plate 2.0) is the only representa- 

 tive of the family found in the State. Its bronzed iridescent plumage and 

 heavy decurved bill serve to distinguish it from any other Oregon bird 

 with which it might possibly be confused. It arrives in May and leaves 

 in September (earliest date, May 15; latest, October 4, both Harney 

 County), and can be looked for regularly in the vicinity of Malheur, 

 where a small colony has bred for many years. Coues (1876) reported it 

 as a breeding bird at Camp Harney. Willett (1919) reported a colony of 

 about 100 nesting pairs in the tules along the west side of Malheur Lake 

 that began to deposit eggs about June i. Despite the long-continued 

 drought and consequent shrinking of water areas, the birds still remained 

 about the lake in small numbers in 1933, but we cannot say whether or 

 not they nested that year. 



Aside from these Malheur Lake birds there is a specimen in the Henshaw 

 collection taken at Warner Lakes, September 6, 1877, and last known to 

 be in the British Museum (Sharpe 1898). So far as we know this is the 



