OEDER HERODIONES. 91 



Ordee HERODIONES. Herons, Storks, 

 Ibises, etc. 



SuBORDEE IBIDES. Spoonbills and Ibises. 



Family PLATALEIDiS. Spoonbills. 



Genus AJAIA Reichenbach. 



Ajaia Reichenbach, Syst. Avium, 1852, xvi. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Ajaia rosea Reichenbach = Platalea ajaja Linnaeus. 



Ajsiia ajSja (Linnaeus). Roseate Spoonbill. [183.] 



Platalea ajaja Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 140. (Brazil.) 



Range.^ North and South America, from Texas, Louisiana, 

 Florida, and Georgia south to Patagonia and the Falkland Islands; 

 formerly casual north to Pennsylvania and the lower Ohio Valley 

 (Indiana and lUinois); accidental in California, Colorado, Kansas, 

 and Wisconsin. 



Family IBIDIDiE. Ibises. 



Genus GUARA Reichenbach. 



Gtiara Reichenbach, Syst. Avium, 1852, xiv. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Scolopax rvhra Linn^us. 



Guara alba (Linn^us). White Ibis. [184.] 



Scolopax alba Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 145. (Carolina.) 



Range. — North and South America, from Lower California, Texas, 

 and South Carolina south to West Indies, Brazil, and Peru, and casually 

 to Great Salt Lake, South Dakota, Illinois, Vermont, Connecticut, and 

 Long Island; winters from Gulf of Mexico southward. 



