. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The White-faced Glossy Ibis are never twice alike, the colony shifts from year to year, and I have not been so fortunate as to find it in three trials. The birds are said to build in loose colonial fashion, sev- eral hundred pairs in an area of forty acres, select- ing for the purpose the least accessible mazes of the "tule" or giant Scirpus. The nests are merely plat- forms of broken-down tules, augmented, or not, with some interlacing o
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The White-faced Glossy Ibis are never twice alike, the colony shifts from year to year, and I have not been so fortunate as to find it in three trials. The birds are said to build in loose colonial fashion, sev- eral hundred pairs in an area of forty acres, select- ing for the purpose the least accessible mazes of the "tule" or giant Scirpus. The nests are merely plat- forms of broken-down tules, augmented, or not, with some interlacing of loose stems. The eggs, three or four in number, are of a rich dark bluish green, quite the handsomest in the entire Heron order. Their distinctness of type probably entitles the own- ers to separate family rank, the PlegadidcB. Indeed, viewed oologically, the Spoonbills, family Platale- idcB, stand in nearer rela- tionship to the IbididcB proper than do either to the PlegadidcB, the Bronze Ibises. The chief interest of the nesting region attaches to the appearance and spectacular flight of the wide-ranging groups of foraging birds. Pairs or squads or small platoons are likely to be flushed anywhere within ten miles of the central rookery. At such times the self-conscious birds vault into the air with startled cries, not unlike the grunting of pigs, moik, or oigh, oigh. A flying company, coming upon observers in ambush, will flinch or corkscrew most picturesquely (not to say pathetically) each for himself. But left to themselves, they fall into line behind some trusted leader, and move off at a very businesslike pace. In my opinion few sights in the marshes equal the vision of a passing company of Bronze Ibises, timid mementoes of the elder Taken on Laguna Blanca Photo by the Author A STUDY IN BRONZE 1929. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of thes
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