. Birds and nature in natural colors. . Inhabitants of warm climates,in America their range is becoming restricted yearly. Eour varieties occur inNorth America, the wood ibis and the white-faced glossy ibis like the white ibisare peculiarly American, while the scarlet ibis is an accidental visitor. Some yearsago the white ibis was found in the southern swamps of Illinois and late years they have retreated to the wooded sections of Florida, Texas andother gulf states. Ibises are gregarious, but unlike the herons and cranes are almost silentbirds. Their food is chiefly animal matter,
. Birds and nature in natural colors. . Inhabitants of warm climates,in America their range is becoming restricted yearly. Eour varieties occur inNorth America, the wood ibis and the white-faced glossy ibis like the white ibisare peculiarly American, while the scarlet ibis is an accidental visitor. Some yearsago the white ibis was found in the southern swamps of Illinois and late years they have retreated to the wooded sections of Florida, Texas andother gulf states. Ibises are gregarious, but unlike the herons and cranes are almost silentbirds. Their food is chiefly animal matter, such as frogs, craw^tish and minnow^ large beak is well adapted for extracting and crushing crawfish. The flight of the white ibis like that of the white pelican is move in close ranks alternately flapping and saiHng, all birds moving thewings simultaneously. As they pass through the sunlight the plumage glistens,and the black markings on the wing show in marked contrast to the otherwiseimmaculate plumage. 616. A Study of the Cuckoo By Clara Kern Bayliss Scores of writers on the Cuckoo assert that only the European speciesimposes its eggs upon other birds. Only two writers that I know of state thecontrary. Ridgway, in Illinois Ornithology, says that the Yellow and the Black-billed impose upon each other and, rarely, upon other species. And in Ahsts andEggs of North American Birds, David Davie states that they occasionally deposittheir eggs in nests of the Robin, Cardinal Grosbeak, Mourning Dove, Catbird, andWaxwing. On July 24, 1916, I found a Yellow-billed Cuckoos nest, with the bird in-cubating, ten feet from the ground on the horizontal branch of a small elm. Nothaving my periscope (an adjustable mirror at the end of a bamboo pole) withme, I assisted a little girl who had accompanied me, to climb the tree, and shereported that the nest contained three green eggs, one of them smaller and darkerthan the other two. As seen through the mirror next day I s
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