. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . TELEPHOTO PICTURE OF AN IBIS AND A LOUISIANA HERON 72 WILD WINGS. YOUNG FLORIDA CORMORANTS. deposited. All the eggs of the ibises seemed to be fresh,and many of the sets yet incomplete. In view of finding, inthe other ibis rookery visited, the young already well grown, I am inclined to believe thatthese ibises may have re-cently come to this islandfrom some other rookery,that had been broken up,and were trying to raisebelated broods. While I was among theibis nests, a harsh series ofrattl
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . TELEPHOTO PICTURE OF AN IBIS AND A LOUISIANA HERON 72 WILD WINGS. YOUNG FLORIDA CORMORANTS. deposited. All the eggs of the ibises seemed to be fresh,and many of the sets yet incomplete. In view of finding, inthe other ibis rookery visited, the young already well grown, I am inclined to believe thatthese ibises may have re-cently come to this islandfrom some other rookery,that had been broken up,and were trying to raisebelated broods. While I was among theibis nests, a harsh series ofrattling grunts arrested myattention, whose author Ifound to be an American Egret, that flew back and forthover me, and then alighted in a tree-top to watch. It wasa most beautiful sight, the tall, slender white bird, with long,graceful neck, and a back covered with the elegant aigrette plumes that drooped down over the wings — the prize ofthe merciless plume-hunter. Here was the nest, about fifteenfeet up a mangrove. In it were three little egrets, ratherragged and uncouth in their incipient white plumage, yetquaint and interesting. Not far away were several othernest
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