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Range (Tropical America breeds as far)

Tropical America; breeds as far north as southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and South Carolina; winters from the Gulf southward. Long Island, A. V.

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Nest, of reeds and weed stalks, in trees, bushes, and reedy marshes. Eggs, three to five, pale greenish white, with chocolate markings generally most numerous at the larger end, 2.25 × 1.50.

This locally abundant species is generally found in flocks of five or six to as many hundred birds which frequent mud flats, marshes, or the borders of lagoons. They fly in close rank, and when in large flocks, with their snowy plumage glistening in the sunlight and their wing-strokes accented by the black-tipped primaries, form a strikingly beautiful picture.

The SCARLET IBIS (185. Guara rubra), a South American species, has been recorded from Florida, Louisiana, and New Mexico. (See Brewster, Bull.