Me eed Fourteenth Supplement to the A. O. U, Check-List. 363 
The following changes are made in the Family Ciconiide: 
SUBFAMILY TANTALINZ, becomes 
SUBFAMILY MYCTERIINA. Wood Ibises. 
Genus TANTALUS Linn xus, becomes 
GENUS MYCTERIA Linn -£ts. 
Mycterra Linnaus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 140. Type, 
Mycteria americana LINN &US. 
188. Tantalus loculator LINN xus, becomes 
188. Mycteria americana LINN “us. 
Wood Ibis. 
Mycteria americana LinN&ws, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 140. 
GeENus MYCTERIA, of the Check-List, becomes 
GeENuUS JABIRU HeEtumMayr. 
Jabiru Hetimayr, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., II KI., XXII, 
1906, 711. Type, Crconia mycteria LICHTENSTEIN. 
[189.] Mycteria americana Linn ©vus, becomes 
{189.] Jabiru mycteria (LICHTENSTEIN). 
Jabiru. 
Ciconia mycteria LICHTENSTEIN, Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 
(Phys. K1.), for 1816-17, 1819, 163. 
The reasons for the above changes are fully explained by ALLEN, 
Auk, XXV, 1908, 37, 38. 
Genus BOTAURUS Hermann. Authority is changed to 
GENUS BOTAURUS STEPHENS. 
Botaurus STEPHENS, in SHAw, Gen. Zool., XI, ii, 1819, 592. 
Type, Ardea stellaris LINN=vs. 
