68 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus PLEGADIS Kaup. 



Plegadis Kaup, Skizz. Entw. Gesch. Eur. Thierw. 1829, 82. 

 Type, Tantalus falcinellus Linn. = Tringa autunmalis Has- 



SELQ. 



186. Plegadis autumnalis (Hasselq.). 



Glossy Ibis. 



Tringa autumnalis Hasselquist, Reise nach Palast. Deutsche 



Ausg. 1762, 306. 

 Plegadis autumnalis Stejn. Stand. Nat. Hist. IV. 1885, 160. 



[B 500, C 445, R 503, C 649.] 



Geog. Dist. — Warmer parts of eastern hemisphere, West Indies 

 and southern portions of eastern United States, wandering northward 

 to New England and lUinois. In America only locally abundant 

 and of irregular distribution. 



187. Plegadis guarauna (Linn.). 



White-faced Glossy Ibis. 



Scolopax guarauna Linn. S. N. ed. 12, I. 1766, 242. 

 Plegadis guarauna Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I. Oct. 2, 1878, 

 163. 



[B— , C 445 bis, 445 ter, R 504, C 650.] 



Geog. Dist. — Western United States, from Texas to California, 

 Oregon, and casually to southern British Columbia, Kansas and 

 Florida (breeding) ; southward through the West Indies and Mexico 

 to South America. 



Suborder CICONI^. Storks, etc. 



Family CICONIIDiE. Storks and Wood Ibises. 



Subfamily TANTALIN.aB. Wood Ibises. 



Genus TANTALUS Linnaeus. 



Tantalus Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 140. Type, 7. loculator 

 Linn. 



