192 IBIDID^. 



Eudocimus albuB, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 402" ; Duges, La Nat. i. p. U2 " ; Salv. Ibis, 1864, 



p 387 " ; 1889, p. 376 » ; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 4f)7 " ; vi. pp. 379 ", 389 ; 



Baird, Brewer, & B,idgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 89 " ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 



xxvi. p. 39'°; Salvad. & Festa, Boll. Mus. Torino, xiv. no. 339, p. 12 ". 

 Guara alba, Stejn. Stand. Nat. Hist. iv. p. 9 " ; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 171 " ; 



A. O. U. Check-1. N. Amer. Birds, p. 67 ". 

 Pure albus, primariis extimis ad apicem nitide viridi-nigris : rostro et facie nuda coccineis rel anrantiacis ; 

 pedibns coccineis ; iride margaritaceo-cyanea. Long, tota circa 22-0, alae 11-4, caudse 4-0, culm. 6-2, 

 tarsi 3-85. (Descr. exempl. adulti ex Chiapam. Mus. nostr.) 

 2 mari similis, sed multo minor. Long, tota circa 23-0, ate 10-9. (Descr. feminae adult® ex Texas. Mus. 



nostr.) 

 Juv. Supra brunnens, alis seneo-viridi nitentibus ; dorso postico, uropygio et supracaudalibus albis ; cauda 

 brunnea, basin versus alba ; pileo et colic toto fuscescenti-brunneis, albido striolatis ; faciei et guise pluinis 

 cano marginatis ; corpore reliquo subtus albo. (Descr. av. juv. ex Ins. Cozumel. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. NoETH America, South Atlantic and Gulf States, north to North Carolina, 

 Southern Illinois, Great Salt Lake, and Lower California, casually to Long Island, 

 Connecticut, and South Dakota 24.— Mexico {Deppe & ScUede^^), hot regions 

 of both coasts 11, San Mateo, Tehuantepec i" (Sumichrast), T r esiddo {Forrer^'>), 

 Mazatlan [Grayson^), Guanajuato {JDuges^^), Matamoros {Dresser^), Tampico, 

 Tamesi {Richardson ^% Actopam, Jalapa, Vera Cruz {Ferrari-Perez ^% Santeco- 

 mapam {BouGard% La Antigua {Trujillo'^^), Cozumel I. {Gaumer^^^^); British 

 HoNDTJEAS, Belize, Golden Stream Cays 12, Grassy Cay 1^ {0. S.); Guatemala, 

 Chiapam, Pacific coast ( 0. /S. '') ; NiCAEAGUA, San Juan del Sur, Pacific coast i'^, 

 Sucuya, Lake Nicaragua i^ (iVw^^in^), Momotombo {Richardson ^^) ; Costa Rica, 

 La Palma, Gulf of Nicoya {E. Arce^^, Nutting^^).—AuAZomA-° ; Peru 20 ; West 



lXDIES20. 



The White Ibis is found in the Southern United States, and its range extends to the 

 interior of North America, as mentioned in the above summary of the distribution of the 

 species. In Mexico it is met with in the hot regions of both coasts n, but, though we 

 have specimens from various parts of that country, there is no evidence that it breeds 

 there. Salvin noticed the species on some of the Cays of British Honduras as late as 

 April ; but it was not numerous either there or in Guatemala, where we only obtained 

 specimens at Chiapam on the Pacific coast. Mr. Nutting saw many examples in 

 the Gulf of Nicoya, in Costa Rica, and says that it was less shy than most kinds of 

 water-birds. It is therefore probable that the White Ibis is chiefly, if not entirely, a 

 winter visitor to the whole of Central America, as it is to Brazil and other parts of 

 South America. 



E. alius breeds in immense colonies, in company with Herons and other water- 

 birds. It constructs a nest of sticks and roots, more than a foot in diameter and with 

 a flat interior, placing it on trees, bushes, cactuses, &c. ; and Audubon relates that 

 he found no less than forty-seven on a wild plum-tree on an island off" the coast of 

 Florida. 



