. A catalogue of the birds of Indiana. Birds. 26 Family Ibises. Genus GUARA Reiohexbach. 58. Guara alba (itii'i.). Whitf. Ibis. Rare Bummer visitor. Mr. Robert Ridgway inform^ me that he and Mr. Wil- liam Brewster saw a coiniderable flock on the Wabash river near Mt. Carmel, 111., in May, 1881. They were observed on both sides of the river. The fact that they were seen in a flock at this time of the year would seem to indicate that they per- haps were near their breeding ground. { Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, October, 1878, p. 166; Ibid. Vol. V, p. Suborder CICONI^E. Siorks, etc. Fami
. A catalogue of the birds of Indiana. Birds. 26 Family Ibises. Genus GUARA Reiohexbach. 58. Guara alba (itii'i.). Whitf. Ibis. Rare Bummer visitor. Mr. Robert Ridgway inform^ me that he and Mr. Wil- liam Brewster saw a coiniderable flock on the Wabash river near Mt. Carmel, 111., in May, 1881. They were observed on both sides of the river. The fact that they were seen in a flock at this time of the year would seem to indicate that they per- haps were near their breeding ground. { Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, October, 1878, p. 166; Ibid. Vol. V, p. Suborder CICONI^E. Siorks, etc. Family CICONIID^'E. axd' Wood Iblses. Subfamily Wood Wood Ibis. Gkxus tantalus 59. Tantalus loculator (Linn.). Wood Ibis. Perhaps regular summer vi'ilor, or summer resident, in the Lower Wabash Val- ley, throughout the remainder of the oouthern two thirds of the State rare sum- mer visitor. The first account of the occurrence of these birds in the State is given by Dr. Raymond (Proc. Philu. Acad. Nat. Science, 1856, p. 295) in which he says: "The first day of August, 185i, a large fijck of the=e birds made their appearance in this neighborhood. They remained along the river and the White Water canal for about a month or six weeks. A son of one of my neighbors broke the wing of one of them and caught it. After keeping it three or four weeks, feeding it upon fish, he gave it to me. I kept it until near the first of November, when it fell a vic- tim, as many another biped has done, to its appetite. Some mackerel had been placed to soak upon a table in the back yard, one of which he stole and ate, and upon the evening of the next day died in ;' Dr. Haymond also re-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Butler, Amos W. (Amos William), 1860-1937.
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