. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . unKs of the trees;they were usually more massive than the Herons nests. The general shape of theeggs is ovate; and their color is white, or buffy-white, blotched, spotted and stainedwith various shades of brown; sometimes a pure white egg is found in a nest withspotted or marked examples. They measure from to 184. WHITE IBIS. Ciiavd nlhn (Linn.) Geog. Dist.—South Atlantic and GulfStates southward to the West Indies and Northern South America; casually on theAtlantic coast to Long Island; in the interior to the
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . unKs of the trees;they were usually more massive than the Herons nests. The general shape of theeggs is ovate; and their color is white, or buffy-white, blotched, spotted and stainedwith various shades of brown; sometimes a pure white egg is found in a nest withspotted or marked examples. They measure from to 184. WHITE IBIS. Ciiavd nlhn (Linn.) Geog. Dist.—South Atlantic and GulfStates southward to the West Indies and Northern South America; casually on theAtlantic coast to Long Island; in the interior to the Lower Ohio Valley and Great Salt Lake. The White Ibis or Spanish Curlew is distributed in summer throughout theSouth Atlantic and Gulf States from the Carolinas southward, throughout Mexico,Central America, and portions of Northern South America. It breeds in communi-ties by thousands in the tangled marshes of the southern coast; fastening the nestto broken down or upright living reeds; it is composed of reeds, compactly woven 108 VESTS AND EGOS OF •!.P^. European Spoonbill (From Brebm), together, is deep and much hollowed, which is unlike the frail platform nests of theherons. Mr. Scuart says the White Ibis breeds abundantly on the low mangrovebushes on the islands of the Gulf coast. There is a large rookery in Charlotte Har-bor. The nests are usually made of the green twigs of the mangrove. The eggsare laid in June. At Cape Sable eggs are deposited after the 10th of April; these arefrom three to five in number, ashy-blue, spotted and blotched irregularly with yel-lowish, reddish and umber-brown of varying shades; two or three in number, andmeasure about by [185.] SCABLET IBIS. Guara ruhra (Linn.) Geog. Dist.—Eastern coasts oftropical America, north casually to-Florida, Louisiana and Texas; southward to theWest Indies. An exquisite bird of the richest scarlet plumage. There is probably no wellauthenticated instance of its having been taken within the United
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