CHECK LIST OF NEW YORK BIRDS 245 



97 (187) White-faced glossy ibis 1 



Plegadis guarauna (Linn.) 



Family CICONIIDAE Storks and wood ibises 



98 (188) Wood ibis 



Tantalus loculator Linn. 



Family ARDEIDAE Herons, bitterns, etc. 



99 (190) American bittern 



Botaurus lentiginosus (Montag.) 



100 (191) Least bittern 



Ardetta exilis (Gmel.) 



1 There is a specimen (no. 205) of this species in the New York state museum, taken on Grand 

 island, Niagara river, Aug. 1844. See 3d ann. rep't N. Y. state museum, p. 23; al#> Auk, 1887, 

 8:233-44. 



