The White-faced Glossy Ibis 



green, golden green, and bottle green — surpassingly beautiful. Bill, curved downward, 

 slaty blue, reddening on tip; irides blood-red; lores and eyelids naked, lake red, — this 

 area and base of bill above and below surrounded by a narrow border of white feathers, 

 the "face"; feet and legs dark wine-purple. Immature: Chiefly sooty brown, finely 

 streaked on head and neck all around with white, faintly lustrous on underparts, 

 definitely bronzy greenish on wings (including lining), and back. The plumage is 

 progressively invaded by lustrous purple, but the streaked head is the last youthful 

 character to give way. " Young, first plumage (with traces of down still): Remark- 

 ably lustrous. Plumage entirely green; legs black; bill blackish, irregularly blotched 

 or regularly banded with pinkish white." Downy young: Uniform blackish, with 

 whitish bill. Length of adult male: 558.8-609.6 (22.00-24.00). Av. of 6 Calif, males: 

 length (skins) 587 (23.10); wing 276 (10.90); bill 136 (5.36); tarsus 103 (4.06). Female 

 smaller. 



Recognition Marks. — Gull size; dark plumage (appearing black at distance) 

 distinctive for birds of this association; blackish bill, strongly decurved. 



Nesting. — Nests in colonies in reeds; composed of broken-down reeds attached 

 to living ones; well built and deeply cupped. Eggs: 3 or 4; niagara green or light 

 niagara green. Av. size 50.8 x 35.56 (2.00 x 1.40). Season: May. 



General Range. — Temperate and tropical America from southern Oregon, 

 Arizona, Texas and Florida south to the Straits of Magellan. Breeds southward 

 from the northern limits of its range, and has wandered to British Columbia, Wyoming, 

 and Nebraska. 



Distribution in California. — Common migrant practically throughout the 

 State, except in the northwest coastal section; summer resident, breeding in suitable 

 swamp}- areas, sometimes sporadically, as at San Jacinto (Mystic) Lake, in Riverside 

 County, regularly in the flooded areas tributary to Los Bafios, formerly at least near 

 Los Angeles, and at Escondido. Less common record stations of occurrence are Lower 

 Klamath Lake (Bryant), Goose Lake, June 10, 1912 (Author), Bishop, Inyo County, 

 May 21, 1919 (Author). Winters casually in the San Diegan district and even to Los 

 Bafios (Grinnell) and Stockton (Belding). 



Authorities. — Gambel (Falcinellus cayanensis), Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 ser. 2, i., 1849, p. 223 (Los Angeles) ; Chapman, Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist, 

 1908, p. 292 (Los Bafios, habits); Willett and Jay, Condor, vol. xiii., 1911, p. 159, figs. 

 (San Jacinto Lake, desc. nest and eggs, etc.); Dawson, Condor, vol. xvi., 1914, p. 8, 

 figs. (Santa Barbara; actions). 



Taken at Sandyland 



AN EGYPTIAN FRIEZE 



From a gum tissue print 



by Fedora E. D. Brown 



Negative by the Author 



1925 



