THE COVER

The air brush drawing by Samuel O. Smart shows the White Ibis, known also as the White Curlew, the Spanish Curlew and the Stone Curlew, which is found in large numbers in the Everglades (seep pp. 3-10). The bird breeds in North and South America from South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas and Lower California to the West Indies, Venezulela and Peru. It prefers crayfish for food, lives in great rookeries established at ponds and sloughs, flies in ordered ranks, and is easily recognizable by its long, downward curved beak.