14 NORTH AMERICAN HERONS AND THEIR ALLIES. 



West, Fla.," January 16, 1886, and at Lake Okeechobee, Fla., March 

 14, 1874. Young nearly fledged were found April 1, 1858, on Indian 

 Eiver, Fla. (Bryant), and young in the nest April 19, 1882, at La 

 Palma, Costa Rica (Nutting) ; both eggs and young May 1, 1903, 

 at Cuthbert Lake, Fla. (Bent and Job) and fresh eggs at the same 

 place March 29, 1908 (Chapman) ; eggs in June, Inagua, Bahamas 

 (Cory) ; eggs June 2, 1886, Grigsby Bluff, Tex. (Rachford) ; fresh 

 eggs in Cuba in early August, and both eggs and young at intervals 

 throughout the fall, until finally young were found in the nest in 

 December (Gundlach). 



Migration range. — The roseate spoonbill is resident throughout its 

 breeding range, but wanderers have been taken or noted at Cumber- 

 land, Ga., April 13, 1902 (Helme) ; Charleston, S. C, June, 1879 

 (Wayne) ; Yemassee, S. C, fall of 1885 (Wayne) ; Lancaster, Pa., 

 (Warren) ; Rodney, Miss., June 27, 1889 (Mabbett) ; Vincennes, 

 Ind., spring of 1856 (Butler) ; Portland, Ind., July 14, 1889 (But- 

 ler) ; Janes ville,*Wis., August, 1845 (Kumlein) ; near Wichita, Kans., 

 March 20, 1899 (Matthews) ; Silverton, Colo., spring of 1888 (Mor- 

 rison) ; near Pueblo, Colo., August, 1890 (Smith) ; San Bernardino, 

 Cal., June 20, 1903 (Stephens). 



White Ibis. Guam alba (Linnaeus). 



Range. — Tne Gulf States and central Mexico, south through 

 Central America and the Greater Antilles to Venezuela and Peru; 

 casual north to Vermont, Illinois, South Dakota, Colorado, and Utah. 



Breeding range. — Throughout Florida the white ibis has been one 

 of the most abundant breeding birds, and it has suffered so little at 

 the hands of the plume hunters that it is still common in many parts 

 of the State and in some places is really abundant. At Cuthbert and 

 Alligator Lakes, near Cape Sable, Fla., two breeding colonies of 

 more than a thousand birds each were found in 1903, and still larger 

 ones reported farther inland (Bent). A colony of 4,000 nests was 

 found in 1911 at Orange Lake, Fla. (Pearson). The species becomes 

 less common to the northward, but has been known to nest north to 

 St. Marys, Ga. (Arnow), southern South Carolina (Wayne), and 

 Chipley, Fla. (Pleas). Though not so common west of Florida, yet 

 it is not a rare breeder in southern Mississippi (Allison), southern 

 and southwestern Louisiana (Beyer), and north to Natchez, Miss. 

 (Audubon) . It is less common on the Texas coast, breeding at Corpus 

 Christi (Sennett) and Brownsville (Merrill), and occurs thence 

 along the coast of eastern Mexico, on the larger inland lakes, and on 

 the Pacific coast north to Mazatlan (Lawrence) and to Santa Mar- 

 garita Island (Anthony). Though formerly abundant and still com- 

 mon in Cuba (Gundlach) and Isle of Pines (Bangs and Zappey), it 

 seems not to have been common in the rest of its range in the West 



