. Distribution and Migration of North American Herons and their Allies . ^) and Costa Rica (Nutting) and has been re-corded as occurring in Guatemala (Goss), Panama (Sharpe), andColombia (Robinson). It used to be a common breeder in GreatInagua Island, Bahamas (Cory), in Cuba (Gundlach), and on theIsle of Pines (Poey), but is now^ rare if not extinct throughout thisregion. It has been recorded as a rare visitant to Jamaica (March),Haiti (Tristram), Porto Rico (Bowdish), and several of the LesserAntilles including Trinidad Island (Leotaud), while from the coastof Venezuela (Ernst) south to Bahi
. Distribution and Migration of North American Herons and their Allies . ^) and Costa Rica (Nutting) and has been re-corded as occurring in Guatemala (Goss), Panama (Sharpe), andColombia (Robinson). It used to be a common breeder in GreatInagua Island, Bahamas (Cory), in Cuba (Gundlach), and on theIsle of Pines (Poey), but is now^ rare if not extinct throughout thisregion. It has been recorded as a rare visitant to Jamaica (March),Haiti (Tristram), Porto Rico (Bowdish), and several of the LesserAntilles including Trinidad Island (Leotaud), while from the coastof Venezuela (Ernst) south to Bahia Blanca, Argentina (Barrows)and to Santiago, Chile (Philippi), it is not rare either on the coastor in tlie interior on the larger rivei*s. A few have wandered southto the Falkland Islands (Abbott) and the Strait of Magellan (Scla-ter and Hudson). The breeding season is evidently exceedingly variable and greatlyextended. The National Museum contains eggs taken near Key EOSEATE SPOONBILL. 13. Fig, 2.—Roseate spoonbill {AJaia ajaja), 14 NORTH AMERICAN HERONS AND THEIR ALLIES. West, Pla., January l(i, 18^6. and at Lake Okeechobee, Fla., March14, 1874. Younj^ nearly fledged were found April 1, 1858, on IndianEiver, Fla. (Bryant), and youno^ in the nest April 19, 1882, at LaPalma, Costa Rica (Nutting) ; both eggs and young May 1, 1903,at Cuthbert Lake, Fla. (Bent and Job) and fresh eggs at the sameplace March 29, 1908 (Chapman) ; eggs in June, Inagiia, Bahamas(Cor>) ; eggs June 2, 1880, Grigsby Bluff, Tex. (Rachford) ; fresheggs in Cuba in early August, and both eggs and young at intervalsthroughout the fall, until finally young were found in the nest inDecember (Gundlach). Migration range.—The roseate spoonbill is resident throughout itsbreeding 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.,(AVarren) ; Rodney, Miss., June 27, 1889 (Ma
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