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migrate north in March, April, and May, returning during 

 October, and are never observed in winter." Favier. 



We saw many Spoonbills in April at the lake of Meshree el 

 Haddar, near Larache ; and they then appeared to be on 

 migration. 



The earliest occurrence of this species in spring near Gibraltar 

 that I know of was one shot on the 9th of April, at the First 

 River; and the latest seen was a single bird wading about the 

 river Barbate, near Casas Viejas, on the 20th of November. They 

 were common in the marisma in flocks in May; in some wet 

 seasons they nest there, and also in the Soto Torero, near Vejer, 

 where, sad to relate, a Spaniard, in 1873, took upwards of seventy 

 eggs early in May. He brought most of these eggs into Gibraltar, 

 to some collectors who were there at that time ; and next year he 

 described to me the nests as merely made of a few sedges, and 

 placed close (junto) together, each containing four eggs. The 

 season of 1874 was very dry, and no Spoonbills appeared there ; 

 indeed, had it been wet, probably after being so robbed, the birds 

 would not have nested again in that spot ; but in 1875 Major 

 Verner reports them again nesting there and also breeding during 

 the following season in the Soto Malabrigo. He further reports 

 seeing at La Janda a flock of about a dozen on the 20th of 

 February, 1876. 



White ; lower neck and the short bushy crest tinged with yellow ; bill 

 black at base, yellow and broadly flattened at the end ; chin bare and 

 yellow ; iris dull red. Length 3236 inches. 



Young. "Without crest or yellow skin ; bill blackish ; iris black/ 



IBIDID^. 



226. Ibis comatus, Ehrenberg. The Red-cheeked Ibis. 



Favier included in his MS., without any description, another 

 species of Ibis as having once been obtained by him near Tangier. 

 He called it " His caha " ; but it could hardly have been that 



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