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hard, metallic cries. Other ibises, also birds of other genera, have similar 

 aerial performances." (Huds. Natur. La Plata, 1892, pp. 265-266.) 



Genus PLEGADIS Kaup. 



Type. 



Plegadis, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 82 (1829); Sharpe, Cat.' 

 Bds. Brit. Mus. XXVI. p. 29 (1889); id. Hand-List 

 Bds. I, p. 187 (1899) . . . . P. falcinellus. 



Tdiifd/ides, Wagler, Isis. 1832, p. 1231 . . . P. falcinellus. 



Falcinellus, Gray, List Gen. Bds. 1841, p. 87 (nee Vieill. 



1816) . . . P. falcinellus. 



Plegadornis, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 290 .... P. 



Geographical Range. Nearly the entire warmer portions of Europe 

 and North America, and Australia, Africa, India and South America. 



PLEGADIS GUARAUNA (Linnaeus). 



Le Courly brun d'AmeYique, Briss. Orn. V. p. 330 (1760). 



? Le Courly varie du Mexique, Briss. torn. cit. p. 333. 



Scolopax guarauna, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. p. 242 (1766), ex Briss. p. 330. 



?L'Acalot, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. VIII. p. 45 (1781), ex Briss. p. 333. 



? Mexican Ibis, Lath. Gen. Syn. III. pt. i, p. 108 (1785), ex Buff. 



Brazilian Whimbrel, Lath. torn. cit. p. 125, ex Linnaeus. 



Tantalus mexicanus, Gm. Syst. Nat. I. p. 652 (1788) ex Lath. 



Numenius guarauna, Lath. Ind. Orn. II. p. 712 (1790). 



Curucan cuello jaspeado, Azara, Apunt. III. p. 197 (1805). 



Numenius chi/ti, Vieill. N. Diet d'Hist Nat. VIII. p. 303 (1817), ex Azara. 



? Ibis mexicana, Vieill. op. cit. XVI. p. 9 (1817). 



Tantalus chalcopterus (nee Vieill.) Temm. PI. Col. V. pi. 511 (1830: 



Chili). 

 Ibis guarauna Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 75 (1823 Montevideo); Gray, Gen. 



B. III. p. 565 (1847); Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 23 (1847); id- Naum. 



1853, p. 222 (Valdivia); Cass. U. S. Astr. Exp. p. 302 (1855: Chili 



& Patagonia); Carabajal, La Patagonia, II. p. 272 (1900). 

 Tantalides guarauna, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 1231. 

 Ibis erythrorhyncha, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, P- I2 7 (Haiti). 



