104 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 84. 



announced and described by Air. Ord. Since then it has been 

 found at irregular intervals along the coast. The A. O. U. 

 Check List gives its range as, "Tropical and subtropical re- 

 gions, mainly of Eastern Hemisphere. Rare and local in 

 Southeastern" United States from Louisiana to Florida, and in 

 the West Indies ; casual north to Missouri, Wisconsin, Michi- 

 gan, Ontario and Nova Scotia." This very, very rare bird is 

 most abundant in Florida, but abundant is hardly the word 

 to describe it as nine pairs in 1912 bred in a protected rookery 

 that I was guarding and this is a greater number than I can 

 learn of anyone knowing of at any other place and time. 



Glossy Ibis bred on Orange Lake for four years of the live 

 since T first saw it there, this year they did not nest there for 

 some cause. I have seen Glossy Ibis once in 1913 in the 

 month of November on the flats of the Miakka River and on 

 two occasions on the Canal that is the extension of the Caloos- 

 ahatchee River leading into Lake Okeechobee. I have heard 

 of it being seen by a hunter and trapper on the Kissimmec 

 River, but it must be considered very rare in Florida. I have 

 talked with scores of hunters and trappers, men who are ob- 

 servant and know their birds well and but two have described 

 the ''Black CurleAv" to me, and neither of them saw it in the 

 nesting season, so no doubt the only nesting records for 

 Florida are from Alachua County where for four years I 

 have found them nesting on Orange Lake. For the four years 

 previous to 1909 I know it did not nest on Orange Lake as I 

 spent too much time there to miss seeing it. It must have 

 bred there formerly though, as I understand a set was taken 

 in that section about a dozen or more years ago by a gentle- 

 man who was staying in Micanopy. 



At this point a technical description might not be amiss. 

 General color rich dark purplish-chestnut, opaque, changing 

 on head, back, wings (excepting lesser coverts), and tail, to 

 glossy dark purplish-green ; sides and lining of wings and 

 crissum dusky greenish ; primaries greenish black. Bill black- 

 ish ; legs brownish-black ; iris brown ; bare skin of head dark 

 slate, with exception of being pure white where the feathers 

 join the skin for the full length across the front of the head 



