22 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Suborder CICONIAE: Storks, Ibises, and Spoonbills 



Superfamily CICONIOIDEA: Storks and Wood Ibises 



Family CICONIIDAE: Storks and Jabirus 



Subfamily CICONIINAE: Storks 



Genus CICONIA Brisson 



Ciconia Brisson, Orn., 1760, vol. i, p. 48; vol. 5, p. 361. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Ciconia = Ardea ciconia Linnaeus. 



Ciconia maltha Miller 



Ciconia maltha L. H. Miller, Univ. California Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., vol. 5, 

 No. 30, Aug. 5, 1910, p. 440, figs. 1-7. 



Upper Pliocene (Hagerman lake beds) : Barbour Ranch, Snake 

 River, Idaho. Pleistocene: American Falls, Idaho; Vero (stratum 2), 

 Melbourne (stratum 2), Itchtucknee River, 6^ miles south of Marine- 

 land, Flagler County, Seminole Field, Pinellas County, and Venice, 

 Florida. Late Pleistocene : Carpinteria, McKittrick, Rancho La Brea, 

 Los Angeles (type locality), and near Manix, San Bernardino 

 County, California; Banos de Ciego Montero, Santa Clara Province, 

 Culia.-2 



Subfamily MYCTERIINAE: Wood Ibises 



Genus MYCTERIA Linnaeus 



Myctcria Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 140. Type, by monotypy, 

 Mycteria americana Linnaeus. 



Mycteria wetmorei Howard -^ 



Mycteria zvetmorci Howard, Condor, vol. 37, Sept. 15, 1935, p. 253, fig. 47. 



Late Pleistocene: Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Superfamily THRESKIORNITHOIDEA : Ibises 



Family THRESKIORNITHIDAE: Ibises and Spoonbills 



Subfamily THRESKIORNITHINAE: Ibises 



Genus PLEGADIS Kaup 



Plegadis Kaup, Skizz. Entw.-Gcs. Eur. Thierw., 1829, p. 82. Type, by mono- 

 typy, Tantalus falcinellus Linnaeus. 



22 Records formerly listed as Jabiru myctcria (Lichtenstein) have all been 

 assigned to the present species by Hildegarde Howard, in Carnegie Inst. Wash- 

 ington Publ. 530, Jan. 19, 1942, p. 202. Jabiru zvcillsi Sellards, therefore, be- 

 comes a synonym of Ciconia maltha. 



-3 Replaces Myctcria americana as listed in Check-list of North American 

 Birds, ed. 4, 1931, P- 4i6. 



