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 Mar., 1918 THE SCARLET IBIS IN TEXAS 81 Mr. J. G. Holman of Weathersford, Oklahoma, a retired farmer and business man, who is spending his declining years with the rod and gun, was at Rockport during the 1916 storm and was with people who saw a Scarlet Ibis on a drift of debris. "It was a Scarlet Ibis all right and a very pretty one. This and the Spoonbill are the only red water birds that are ever found here. I have never killed either kind, but know they are not at all alike. The Spoonbill is more fre- quently seen than the Ibis. I have seen several of them. I saw three of them at one time but I never heard of any one seeing more than one Ibis at a time. In the winter of 1915 I saw a Scarlet Ibis standing in the shallow water below Ar- ansas Pass. It was not fishing. It stood its ground until the boat passed. It Fig 10. A TEXAS-TAKE-N SPECIMEN (AT RIGHT) OF SCARLET IBIS; IN THE A'rWATER EXHIBIT IN THE CTY AVOTOmVM AT HOrSTON. was in e range of an ordinary gun. Two days afteards I saw a SpnbiH and the day after that I w another Spoonbill. They were along the shorn not far from the pier on wch I fished." Mr. J. H. Jones of Garden City, nsas, who h spent veral winte at Co Christi and Rockpo, reports seeing a Scarlet Ibis wading along the shore. This was in November, 1914. On another occasion he saw a fresh-killed specimen that w being displayed at a sporting gds store in Corp Christi. Dr. F. H. Rell of Dall reports seeing a Scarlet Ibis on one of the nar- row sand-spits below Galveon. The bird was standing still and peatted per-