. The Wilson bulletin . oung calf or sheep. The Ibis sounds as though therewas something in the throat that gives a gutteral sound. Ibecame quite expert in imitating them, so much so that Icould many times fool the young, but as for writing it, that isbeyond me. This note is usually used in all cases when they ap-proach the nest and when they are leaving and just as they takewing. They have another series of notes they use when cares-sing each other and when caressing the young and the femalehas a very soft note, sort of cooing, that she uses when feeding-the young when they are only a few day
. The Wilson bulletin . oung calf or sheep. The Ibis sounds as though therewas something in the throat that gives a gutteral sound. Ibecame quite expert in imitating them, so much so that Icould many times fool the young, but as for writing it, that isbeyond me. This note is usually used in all cases when they ap-proach the nest and when they are leaving and just as they takewing. They have another series of notes they use when cares-sing each other and when caressing the young and the femalehas a very soft note, sort of cooing, that she uses when feeding-the young when they are only a few days old. The youngthemselves never appear to make any notes except when try-ing to avoid a person, when they utter a squawking note offear. The two nests in question were placed quite close toeach other and as the young arrived at the age of two weeksand more they could always recognize their parents noteseven before I could distinguish them. I always knew whichold birds were approaching by the actions of the young bird=;. Glossy Ibis feeding yomi-J Home Life of the Glossy Ibis. 113 in the nest. They never in all the time I observed them madea mistake and put on the alert and expectant look for theparents of the other nest. I could not distinguish any ma-terial difference in the notes of the four adult birds, with thepossible exception of the female of the nest photographed;she appeared to have a coarser tone to her calls. Glossy Ibis appear to have less enemies than any other ofthe birds in the Rookeries. Fish Crows appear to be the onlything that bothers them and they in nearly every case securedthe first sets. Man, of course, is their next enemy, as is usu-ally the case with any species, but here in this Rookery theywere not molested by man at all. I would say that the first sets of eggs are deposited the lat-ter part of April and the second sets usually about the middleto last of May, and practically all I noted laid their second setsand successfully reared their young. In th
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