ON 
190 PLATALEID®. 
1. Platalea ajaja. 
Platalea ajaja, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 231°; Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 206’; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, 
p. 402°; Salv. Ibis, 1865, p. 191‘; 1889, p. 376°; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N.Y. ix. p. 142°; 
Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 8097; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 48°; Dugés, La Nat. i. 
p. 142°; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 876"; Finsch, Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, 1870, 
p. 8358"; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 44°; 1883, p. 458°; Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 233". 
Ajaja ajaja (Reichenb.), Herrera, La Nat. (2) i. pp. 187", 828°; A. O.U. Check-l. N. Amer. 
Birds, 2nd ed. p.67*; Richm. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 527’°; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. xxvi. p. 52”. 
Platalea ayaya, Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vég. p. 3%; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 59”; Wagler, Isis, 
1881, p. 530”. 
Ajaja rosea, Nutting, Pr. U. 8S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 407”; vi. p.379*; Baird, Brewer, & Ridgw. Water- 
Birds N. Amer. i. p. 102*°; Underwood, Ibis, 1896, p. 450”. 
Alba, roseo-induta ; tectricibus alarum minimis et supracaudalibus letioribus, coccineis; remigum et 
rectricum rhachidibus pallide coccineis; rectricibus medianis et reliquorum pogoniis externis saturate 
ochraceis ; preepectoris plumis pallide coccineis, recurvatis, plagam conspicuam formantibus: rostro pallide 
virescenti-cyaneo, basaliter flavicanti-griseo; pedibus pallide coccineis; capite nudo flavescenti-viridi ; 
regione oculari et gutture nudo aurantiacis; fascia nuda nigra, a mandibula basali usque ad occiput 
conjuncta ; iride lete coccinea. Long. tota circa 26-0, ale 14:5, caude 4:3, culm. 6°6, tarsi 4:4. (Descr. 
avis adults ex Florida. Mus. nostr.) 
@ mari similis, sed minor. Long. tota circa 21-0, ale 13:3. 
Juv. adultis similis, sed minus rosacea, remigum et rectricum pogoniis nigris, primariis externis extus et 
apicem versus nigricantibus. 
Hab. Nortn America, Southern Atlantic and Gulf States, formerly north to Southern 
Illinois !7.—Mexico (Deppe & Schiede?° 21, Wagler 2+), both coasts, Santa Efigenia 8 
 (Sumichrast), Mazatlan (Grayson 71), Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer 1°), Santa Ana, 
Jalisco (Lloyd !°), Guanajuato (Dugés®), Valley of Mexico (Herrera! 1°), Tamesi, 
Tampico (Richardson 1°), Jalapa (Sallé*), Rio Lagartos, Yucatan 18, Cozumel I[.° 19 
(Gaumer); GuatemaLa, Lake of Duefias (Constancia *), Chiapam *, Huamachal 19 
(O. S.); Nicaracua, San Juan del Sur, Pacific coast (MVutting *4); Costa Rica 
(Dow ), San José (Boucard !*), Pirris, Tirribi (v. Frantzius !°), Miravalles (Under- 
wood *), Rio Frio (Richmond 18), La Palma, Gulf of Nicoya (Nutting 2°); Panama, 
Veraguas (Arcé 19) —SoutH AMERICA generally 1°. 
The Rosy Spoonbill inhabits Texas and Florida and the adjacent Gulf States, but in 
far less numbers than formerly, owing to the persecution to which it has been 
subjected of recent years. The species is common at Mazatlan throughout the 
summer months, and in the Valley of Mexico!?® during the period of migration in 
February; it also occurs in winter on the eastern coasts!* of Yucatan 18, where it is 
called “ Chocolatera” by the Spaniards. 
We did not find many in Guatemala, and only obtained specimens in the lagoons 
near Chiapam and Huamachal on the Pacific coast. P. ajaja is found abundantly in 
