AVIFAUNA OF LAYS AN, ETC. 



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68. PLEGADIS GUARAUNA (L.). 



Scolopax guarauna, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 242 (1766). 



Pleyadis guarauna, Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1878, p. 163 (Kauai!) ; Baird, Brewer, & Ridgw. Water-B. 

 N. Am. i. p. 97 (1884); Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 84 (Kauai) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxvi. p. 34 (1898) ; Scott Wilson & Evans, Aves Hawaii, pt. vii. (1899). 



One single immature example, which doubtless belongs to P. guarauna (not being P.falci- 

 mllus\ was sent to the U.S. Nat. Mus. by the late Mr. Knudsen from Kauai in 1872. 

 Nothing else is known on the Hawaiian Islands about the occurrence of any Ibises. 



