PLEGADIS CHIHI

YPM 129699

800, 1138

23 Jun 1921 Bancroft, G.
USA. California. Merced County.

Pelecaniformes: Threskiornithidae

Yale University Peabody Museum

OOLOGICAL COLLECTION
GRIFFING BANCROFT AND GRIFFING BANCROFT, JR.
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

A. O. U. NO. 187
NO. OF EGGS 6

DATE

June 23
1921

NAME

White-faced Glossy Ibis
Plegadis guarauna

INCUBATION well advanced
LOCALITY Merced County, California
NEST

IDENTIFICATION from birds

In a rather large cat-tail clump surrounded
with open water averaging four feet deep in
a small lake. A large colony of mixed Ibis
and Black-crowned Night Heron. Nest of tule
fastened to thick growing tule six inches
above the water.

SET NO

1138

COLLECTED BY
Griffing Bancroft, Jr.