ey are useful; in others troublesome. They are use- Osiris, and supposed to record the deeds of the dead, pool within the corporate limits of Los Angeles, South- thus explaining the presence of its figure upon so many ern California, is suggestive of the mild winters of that region, as these birds,… … There is no difference in lar purposes. It has never THE IBIS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. plumage between male and before, we believe, until female. The latter is a lit- now been pressed into ser- tle smaller than the male. In the adult bird a dark ing in every way what is clean, and what is not given…
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