w 



108 



ALTUlt'lAI, (illAM-AT(»l!KS — IlKIUtlMONEH. 



The above chnrncterH, in uililitioii to tlKw prcvioiiHly nivnn, are «iittlcient to define thin well- 

 marked nenus. Only one »|X!('le» U known, the A. rosea, whone di»tribution in coextensive with 

 tropical and sub-tropiual Antericu. 



A, rosea. 



^aja rosea. 



TEE ROSY SPOONBILL. 



Plalea rosea, Briss. Om. V. 1700, lifjG, i>l. 30 (lulult). 



Platalca ajaja, LiXN. S. N. ed. 10, 1758, 140, no. 2 (ex Sloaxe, ,Tam. II. 316 ; Marcgr. Ray) ; ed. 



12, I. 17(56, 231, no. 2 (bised on Platca rosea, Bui.ss. V. 356, t. 30. — P. incarmta, Sloanf., 



Jam. II. 316. — /'. hrasiUcnsh, Ajaja dicta, Marcgr. Bras. 204).— WiLS, Am. Om. VII. 1813. 



123, pi. 62 (yoiuig, third year). — Nrrr. Man. II. 1834, 79. — Arn. Orn. Biog. IV. 1838, 188, 



131 ; .Synop. 1839, — ; Birds Am. VI. 1843, 72, pi. 302 (adult). — Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 



1858, 686. — Baiiid, Cat. X. Am. B. 1859, \w. 501.~Coues, Key, 1872, — ; Chock List, 1873, 



no. 448. 

 Platca vuxicana (" WiM.otTonuY "), (!a.mii. Jour. Philad. Acad. I. 1849, 222 ("San Francisco"). 

 lioseale Spoonbill, I'ksn. Arct. Zool. II. 1785, 440, no. 338. 

 Ajaja rosea, Reich. "Nat. Sy.st. 16." — Kmcw. Xom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 505. — Coues, Check 



List, 2d ed. 1882, no. 653. 



Hab. The whole of tropical and subtropical America, including the AVest Indies ; south to 

 the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and Chili, north to the Southern United States.^ 



• The present northern limit to its range in the United States is not known with precision. We have 

 reliable information of its abundance less than twenty years since in the "American Bottoms," in Illinois, 

 below St Louis ; but whether it now occurs there at all, we do not know. Its former occurrence on the 

 coast of California as far north as San Francisco, is asserted by Gambei. (Jour. Phil. Ac. 1. 1849, p. 222). 



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