[7] FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 1-J5 



503. Pleg-adis ialcinellus (Linn.). Glossy Ibis. [500.] 



Warmer parts of the Old World and portions of 

 Eastern North America, including West Indies. 



a. No. 42009. 2 ad. Spanishtown, Jamaica. W. T. March. 



504. Plegadis guarauna (Linn.). White -faced Glossy Ibis. 



[500 a.] Tropical and subtropical America, north to 

 Texas, Utah, Nevada, and Oregon. 



a. No. 79829. <? ad. Washoe Lake, Nevada, June 3, 1877; H. W. 



Henshaw. 



b. No. 58815. Juv. Mazatlan, Mexico ; Col. A. J. Grayson. 

 (See also Group A of mounted birds.) 



Family PLATALEID^E.-The Spoonbills. 



505. Ajaja rosea Eeich. Roseate Spoonbill. [501.] South- 



ern States, and southward throughout tropical 

 America to Buenos Ayres. 

 (See Group B of mounted birds.) 



Order LIMICOLJL— The Shore-Birds. 

 Family H^EMATOPODID^E.— The Oyster-catchers. 



[♦506. J Haematopus ostralegus Linn. European Oyster- 

 catcher. Various portions of the Old World; 

 accidental in Greenland. 



507. Haeiiiatopus palliatus Temm. American Oyster- 



catcher. [512.] Coasts of America in general, 

 except Pacific coast north of Cape Saint Lucas. 



*a. No. 80264. Pullus. Bone Island, Virginia, July, 1880 ; R. Ridgway. 



508. HsematopiisiiigerPall. Black Oyster-catcher. [513.] 



Pacific coast of North America; south to Lower Cali- 

 fornia. 



a. No. 79831. $ ad. Santa Cruz, California, June 4, 1875; H. W. 

 Henshaw. 



Family STREPSILID^ — The Turnstones. 



509. Strepsiias interpret Linn. Turnstone. [515.] Sea-coasts 



of nearly all parts of the world. 



a. No. 1692. $ ad. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Spring 1843; J. Cas- 



sin. 



b. No. 88769. $ juv. Point Barrow, Alaska, July 29, 1882; M. Smith. 

 ^414-^Bull. 27, 10 



