132 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Long Island; in the interior to the Lower Ohio Valley and Great 

 Salt Lake. 



[185.] G-uara rubra (LINN.). 



Scarlet Ibis. 



Tantalus ruber LINN. S. N. ed. 12, I. 1766, 241. 

 Guara rubra REICH. Syst. Av. 1852, p. xiv. 



[B 498, C 447, R 5 2 > C 652.] 



HAB. Florida, Louisiana (?), and Texas, southward to the West 

 Indies and Northern South America. No record of its recent occur- 

 rence in the United States. 



GENUS PLEGADIS KAUP. 



Plegadis KAUP, Skizz. Entw. Gesch. 1829, 82. Type, Tantalus falci- 

 nellus LINN. = Tringa autumnalis HASSELQ. 



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 53> C 649.] 



HAB. Northern Old World, West Indies, and Eastern United 

 States. Only locally abundant, and of irregular distribution in America. 



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 ^ 445 *&> R 54, C 650.] 



HAB. Western United States (Texas, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Cali- 

 fornia, etc.), southward to Mexico, West Indies, and Central and South 

 America. 



