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and South America to central Argentina and Peru. Migrates irregularly and 

 casually after the breeding season to central California, Arizona, Montana, 

 Wyoming, Missoiui, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, Kentucky, Colorado, 

 Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, New Brunswick, New York, Peim- 

 sylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Vermont. 



SuPERPAMTLY THRESKIORNITHOIDEA. Ibises and Spoon- 

 bills. 



Family THRESKIORNITHIDAE. Ibises and Spoonbills. 

 Subfamily THRESKIORNITHINAE. Ibises. 



Genus PLEGADIS Kaup. 



Plegadis Kaup, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw., 1829, 82. Tj^pe, by 

 monotypy, Tantalus Jalcinellus Linnaeus. 



Plegadis falcinellus falcinellus (Linnaeus). Eastern Glossy Ibis. [186.] 



Tantalus Falcinellus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 1766, 241. (in Aus- 

 tria, Italia = Austria.) 



Range. — Tropical and subtropical regions, mainly of the Eastern Hemi- 

 sphere. Breeds rarely and locally in central Florida and probably in Louisiana 

 and Mexico; also in Haiti and Cuba, ranging casually northward; recorded 

 from Ontario, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Colorado, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, 

 Ohio, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, 

 Delaware, District of Columbia, and South Carolina. [A closely allied race 

 occurs in Java and Australia.] 



Plegadis guarauna (Linnaeus). White-faced Glossy Ibis. [187.] 



Scolopax Guarauna Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 242. Based 

 mainly on the Guarauna (Brasiliensibus) Makcgeave, Hist. Nat. 

 Brazil, 204. (in America australi = Brazil.) 



Range. — -Breeds from Oregon (Malheur Lake) and Utah (Great Salt Lake) 

 to southern Texas and southern Mexico; also locally in Louisiana and Florida 

 (one instance), and in South America from Peru and Brazil southward. 

 Casual in southwestern British Columbia, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, 

 and New Mexico; also Straits of Magellan and Costa Rica (rarely). Winters 

 in Mexico north to southern California, Arizona, Texas, and Louisiana, and 

 in South America. 



Genus GUARA Reichenbach. 



Guara Reichenbach, Avium Syst. Nat., 1852 [1853], xiv. Type, by orig. 



desig., Scolopax rubra Linnaeus. 

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