143 in one position long. They don't start flying till the tree is pretty climbed. The nests are always 20' or 25' up and many must be 30' in the top of the trees. The birds sit near by and chatter and flutter the perch when approaching a nest with a set. The nests are made of sticks, heavy weed stalks and leaves all glued and cemented together with guano. They are usually 30" across and half as thick with a slight cup. Worthless windy nests are large and deep; other hardly more than a bison platform. No Ambiguous come down in the colony. The White Egret (large) came in towards sundown and sat among the colony and on the Billy fats of the island above. They were fairly tame - One bird we got had plumes. Bad shot a fine red male braceus in the colony, sitting in among the cornplants. Several fultures of both sorts are always about. I hummed