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The following changes are made in the Family Ciconiidse: 



Subfamily TANTALIN^, becomes 

 Subfamily MYCTERIIN^. Wood Ibises. 



Genus TANTALUS Linn.eus, becomes 



Genus MYCTERIA Linn-Eus. 



Mycteria Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 140. T}^e, 

 Mycteria americana Linn.eus. 



188. Tantalus loculator Linn^us, becomes 

 188. Mycteria americana Linn.eus. 

 Wood Ibis. 

 Mycteria americana Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 140, 



Genus MYCTERIA, of the Check-List, becomes 



Genus JABIRU Hellmayr. 



Jabiru Hellmayr, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., II Ivl., XXII, 

 1906, 711. Type, Ciconia mycteria Lichtenstein. 



[189.] Mycteria americana Linn.eus, becomes 

 [189.] Jabiru mycteria (Lichtenstein). 

 Jabiru. 



Ciconia mycteria Lichtenstein, Abh, K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 

 (Phys. Kl.), 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. 

 T}^je, Ardea stellar is Linnaeus. 



