24 NOETH AMEBICAN HERONS AND THEIR ALLIES. 



The wood ibis has been noted in the eastern United States at 

 Raleigh, N. C., July, 1884 (Brimley) ; Morganton, N. C. (Wayne) ; 

 Vinitaville, Va., July 18, 1896 (Palmer) ; Bloomery, W. Va., about 

 July 28, 1884 (Wall) ; Washington, D. C., July 2, 1892 (Palmer) ; 

 Silver Hill, Md., July 20, 1896 (Palmer) ; Laurel, Md., July 27, 



1896 (Palmer) ; Williamsport, Pa., June 21, 1876 (Allen) ; Eliza- 

 bethtown, Pa., July 10, 1884 (Sherratt) ; Troy, N. Y., June 24, 1876 

 (Allen); near Glasco, N. Y., July 8, 1884 (Fisher); near East 

 Marion, N. Y., June 21, 1890 (Butcher) ; Barrington, R. I., August 

 8, 1896 (Hathaway) ; Georgetown, Mass., June 19, 1880 (Allen) ; 

 Seekonk, Mass., July 17, 1896 (Brewster) ; Williston, Vt., about 



1897 (Perkins) ; and Berwick, Me., July 16, 1896 (Knight). 



The wood ibis occurs in favorable localities throughout Central 

 America, much of northern South America, and south to Tumbez, 

 Peru (Taczanowski) ; Cordoba, Argentina (Dabbene) ; and Concep- 

 cion, Argentina (Barrows). It is a rare resident of Cuba (Gund- 

 lach) ; occasional in the Isle of Pines (Cory) ; accidental in Jamaica 

 (Denny) ; rare in Haiti (Christi) ; and recorded from Trinidad 

 Island- (Leotaud). 



The larger part of the most northern breeding wood ibises retire 

 a few miles to the southward during the winter season, but enough 

 remain to.allow the species to be called resident throughout its breed- 

 ing range. 



This species is one of the earliest breeding birds, since eggs are in 

 the United 'States National Museum taken in Florida, December 8, 

 1859; Cape Sable, Fla., January 5, 1892; and in southeastern Yuca- 

 tan, March 15, 1890. 



[Cayenne Ibis. Hnrpiprion cayenncnttift (Gmelin). 



Ranges from southern Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Ecuador north and west to the 

 Panama Canal.] 



Jabiru. JaMru myctcria (Lichtenstein). 



The range of the jabiru is from Colombia and Guiana to Argen- 

 tina; rare in Central America; accidental in Mexico and Texas. 



The sole claim of the jabiru to a place in the list of United States 

 birds rests on a specimen donated to the museum of the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Sciences and claimed to have been taken near Austin, 

 Tex. The species is a rather rare resident of the lower parts of 

 Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and has been recorded once from southern 

 Guatemala at Haumuchal (Salvin) ; and once from southern Mexico 

 at Cosamaloapam (Sumichrast). 



The jabiru seems not to have been reported as yet from eastern 

 Costa Rica, Panama, or western Colombia, but it occurs from north- 

 eastern Colombia (Robinson) ; Venezuela (Ernst) ; Tobago Island 

 (Jardine) ; and British Guiana (Cabanis) ; south throughout Brazil 



