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At Santa Lucia we found a large rookery of water birds in the dead 
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Mangroves bordering the mainland* Here we saw large numbers of Mexican 
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Ooraorants breeding* some of the nests containing fresh eggs, while others 
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had almost full grown young. Her# also we noted the Anhing# or Snake birdj 
a pair of West Indian Tree Ducks* breeding in an old tree} some American 
Egrets, the Reddish Egret, the Snowy Egret* The Louis ana Heron* the Little 
Blue Heron* the Cuban Green Heron and a Ye llew»er owned light Heron, ell had 
nests in this colony. In addition to these we saw between two and three 
hundred White Ibis* but we did not find their nests, it is possible that 
the time of our visit did not coincide with their breeding period. 
This rookery is a rather large one* extending over a little more than 
a mil© of the coast and there were many thousands of bifcds in it. 
