WHITE IBIS. 



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Indies, though recorded from Jamaica (Field), Haiti (Christi), and 

 Dominica (Clark). It occurs locally and not rarely along the whole 

 Pacific coast of Central America south to the Rio Sabana, Panama 

 (Salvadori and Festa), and has been recorded at the following places 

 in northern South America: Zulia and Lake Valencia, Venezuela 

 (Ernst) ; Vaqueria, northwestern Ecuador (Hartert) ; and Santa 

 Luzia, northwestern Peru (Taczanowski). _ 



Eggs have been taken March 28, 1898, at Lake Okechobee, Fla. 

 (specimens in Thayer collection) ; April 24, 1888, at Tarpon Springs, 



Fig. 3. — White ibis (Guara alba). 



Fla. (Scott) ; fresh eggs, May 1, 1903, at Cuthbert Lake, Fla.; and 

 young able to fly, May 15, 1903, at Alligator Lake, only a few miles 

 distant (Bent). In Cuba these birds are said to nest from April to 

 September. 



Winter range. — The white ibis is resident throughout its range in 

 Central and South America and the West Indies. It winters in the 

 United States north to Gainesville, Fla. (Chapman), and to southern 

 Louisiana (Beyer, Allison, and Kopman), and in western Mexico 

 north to La Barca (Goldman), Mazatlan (Lawrence) } and to La Paz 

 (Belding). 



