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School, the other in the PubHc Library. Upon inquiry it was 

 found that both were killed at the same time out of a flock of four 

 by Mr. Slingerland of Quincy in the neighborhood of that city. 

 This extends the range of the species in the Mississippi Valley 

 northward to the region of northern Missouri. 



[186. Plegadis autumnalis (Hasselq.). Glossy Ibis.] 



Tantalus falcinellus. Ibis and Plegadis falcinellus. Ibis Ordii. Ibis falci- 

 nellus var. ordii. Green Ibis (young). Bay Ibis. 



Geog. Dist. — Warmer parts of Old World and West Indies, 

 irregularly to southeastern United States, wandering north along 

 Atlantic coast to New England and in the Mississippi Valley to 

 Nebraska (three specimens taken in eastern Nebraska near 

 Omaha), and Wisconsin. 



One in immature plumage was killed February 27, 1880, 

 within a few miles of St. Louis in the Illinois bottom, and 

 is now in the Hurter collection of Washington University of 

 St. Louis. 



187. Plegadis guarauna (Linn.). White-faced Glossy Ibis. 



Scolopax guarauna. Ibis and Tantalum guarauna. Ibis thalassinus (young). 



Geog. Dist. — Northern South America through West Indies 

 and Mexico to Texas, southwestern Louisiana, California, strag- 

 gling northward to British Columbia, Oregon, Wyoming, Kansas 

 and Nebraska. Also found breeding (June 26, 1894, and June 

 22, 1895), at Heron Lake, Minn. 



The Kansas records are one in fall, 1879, near Lawrence; one 

 near Wichita, October 17, 1890; and one near McPherson, April 

 29, 1891. Of the three specimens taken in Nebraska, two were 

 killed near Omaha, August 19, 1893, and April 6, 1897. There 

 is also a record from Calhoun Co., la., where one was killed out 

 of a flock of thirteen in April 1891. In a case of mounted birds 

 presented to the Cuivre Hunting Club by one of its former 

 members, Mr. John T. Davis, is a fine specimen of a White-faced 

 Glossy Ibis in adult plumage. All birds in the case were taken 

 on the club grounds in St. Charles Co., but unfortunately dates 

 of capture have not been preserved. 



