32 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus IXOBRYCHUS Billbkrg. 



Ixobrychus Billberg, Synops. Faunae Scand., I, Pt. ii, 1828, 166. Type, 

 by subs, desig., Ardea minuta Linnaeus (Stone, 1907). 



Ixobrychus exilis exilis (Gmelin). Eastern Least Bittern. [191.] 



Ardea exilis Gmehn, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 645. Based on the 

 Minute Bittern Latham, General Synops., Ill, Pt. 1, 66. (in Jamaica.) 



Range.^ — Breeds from extreme southern Quebec, Ontario, southern Maine, 

 southern Vermont, Wisconsin, central Minnesota, and North Dakota south 

 to the West Indies and southern Mexico. Winters from Georgia and south- 

 ern Texas south to the West Indies and eastern Guatemala. Casual or acci- 

 dental in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. 



Ixobrychus exilis hesperis Dickey and van Rossem. Western Least Bittern. 

 [191a.] 



Ixobrychus exilis hesperis Dickey and van Rossem, Bull. Southern Calif. 

 Acad. Sci., XXIII, 11, Feb. 20, 1924. (Buena Vista Lake, Kern 

 County, California.) 



Range. — ^Breeds from southern Oregon to central Lower California and 

 western Guatemala. Winters from Arizona and southern California southward. 

 [Other races of /. exilis occur in northern South America.] 



Suborder CICONIAE. Storks, Ibises, and Allies. 



SupERFAMiLY CICONIOIDEA. Storks and Wood Ibises. 

 Family CICONIIDAE. Storks and Wood Ibises. 

 Subfamily MYCTERIINAE. Wood Ibises. 



Genus MYCTERIA Linnaeus. 



Mycteria Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 140. Type, by monotypy, 

 Mycteria americana Linnaeus. 



Mycteria americdna Linnaeus. Wood Ibis. [188.] 



Mycteria americana Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 140. Based 

 mainly on the Jabiru-guacu Maecgrave, Hist. Nat. Brazil, 200. (in 

 America calidiore = Brazil.) 



Range. — Breeds and usually winters along the Gulf coast from Texas to 

 Florida and north to South Carolina; also in the West Indies, Mexico, Central 



