190 PLATALElDiE. 



1. Flatalea ajaja. 



Platalea ajaja, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 231 '; Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 206'; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, 



p. 402'; Salv. Ibis, 1865, p. 191'; 1889, p. 376'; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 142'; 



Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 309'; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 48'; Duges, La Nat. i. 



p. 142 ' ; V. Frantz. J. f. Om. 1869, p. 376 '" ; Finsch, Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, 1870, 



p. 358"; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 44"; 1883, p. 458"; Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 233 ". 

 Ajaja ajaja (Reichenb.), Herrera, La Nat. (2) i. pp. 187 ", 328 " ; A. O. U. Check-1. N. Amer. 



Birds, 2nd ed. p. 67 " ; Richm. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 527 " ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus. xxvi. p. 52^'. 

 Platalea ayaya, Licht. Preis-Verz. Max. Vog. p. 3'°; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 59" ; Wagler, Isis, 



1831, p. 530='. 

 Ajaja rosea. Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 407 '' ; vi. p. 379 " ; Baird, Brewer, & Bidgw.AVatcr- 



Birds N. Amer. i. p. 102"; Underwood, Ibis, 1896, p. 450^. 



Alba, roseo-induta ; tectricibus alarum minimis efc supracaudalibus Isetioribus, cocciiieis ; remigum et 

 rectricum rhachidibus pallide coccineis ; rectricibus medianis et reliquoram pogoniis externis saturate 

 ochraceis ; praepectoris plumis pallide coccineis, recurvatis, plagam conspicuam formantibus : rosfcro pallide 

 virescenti-cyaneo, basaliter flavicanti-griseo ; pedibus pallide coccineis ; capite nudo flavescenti-viridi ; 

 regione oculari et gutture nudo aurantiacis; fascia nuda nigra, a mandibnla basali usque ad occiput 

 conjuncta ; iride laete coccinea. Long, tota circa 26-0, alas 14-5, caudse 4-3, culm. 6-6, tarsi 4*4. (Descr. 

 avis adultae ex Florida. Mus. nostr.) 

 2 mari similis, sed minor. Long, tota circa 21'0, alae 13"3. 



Juv. adultis similis, sed minus rosacea, remigum et rectricum pogoniis nigris, primariis externis extas et 

 apicem versus nigricantibus. 



Hal. ]SoRTH Ameeica, Southern Atlantic and Gulf States, formerly north to Southern 

 Illinois ^''. — Mexico {Deppe & Schiede ^^ ^^, Wagler ^*), both coasts i*, Santa Efigenia -^ 

 (Sumichrast), Mazatlan [Grayson '^ ^^j, Presidio <le Mazatlan [Forrer i^), Santa Ana, 

 Jalisco {Lloyd^^), Guanajuato (i?«^es ^), Valley of Mexico (Herrera ^^^^), Tamesi, 

 Tampico (Richardson ^^), Jalapa (Salle^), Rio Lagartos, Yucatan ^^, Cozumel I.^ i^ 

 [Gaumer); Guatemala, Lake of Duenas (Cows^awcm ^), Chiapam*, Huamachal ^^ 

 (O.S.); NiCAKAGUA, San Juan del Sur, Pacific coast {Nutting'^*); Costa Rica 

 (Dow% San Jose (Boucard ^^), Pirris, Tirribi (v. Frantzius ^°), Miravalles (Under- 

 wood 26), Rio Frio (Richmond ^^), La Palma, Gulf of Nicoya (Nutting ^^) ; Panama, 

 Veraguas (Arce ^^). — South America generally ^^. 



The Rosy Spoonbill inhabits Texas and Florida and the adjacent Gulf States, but in 

 far less numbers than formerly, owing to the persecution to which it has been 

 subjected of recent years. The species is common at Mazatlan throughout the 

 summer months, and in the Valley of Mexico ^^ ^^ during the period of migration in 

 Februarj' ; it also occurs in winter on the eastern coasts " of Yucatan ^^, where it is 

 called " Chocolatera " by the Spaniards. 



We did not find many in Guatemala, and only obtained specimens in the lagoons 

 near Chiapam and Huamachal on the Pacific coast. P. ajaja is found abundantly in 



