Order ARDEIF0RME8 
No. 227. 
Family PLEOADIDM. 
CARPHIBIS SPINICOLLIS. 
STEAW-NECKED IBIS. 
(Plate 178.) 
Ibis spinicollis Jameson, Edinb. New Philos. Journ., Vol. XIX., p. 213, 1835 ; banks 
of Murray River, New South Wales. 
New Holland Ibis Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. IX., p. 167, 1824. 
Ibis spinicollis Jameson, Edinb. New Philos. Journ., Vol. XIX., p. 213, 1835 ; Jardine 
and Selby, Illustr. Omith., n.s., Vol. IV., pi. xvn., 1837 ; Reichenow, Journ. 
fiir Omith. 1877, p. 150. 
Ibis lamellicollis Lafresnaye, Mag. de Zool. 1836, pi. 57 (New South Wales). 
Ibis australis Jardine and Selby, Illustr. Ornith., n.s., Vol. IV., text to pi. xviii., 1837 
(New South Wales). 
Ibis lathami id., ib., in synonymy : nomen nudum. 
Geronticus spinicollis Gray, List Sp. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. m, p. 91, 1844 ; Gould, Birds 
Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 45, 1844 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 1888 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 312, 1889 ; Cox and Hamilton, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Ser. II., Vol. IV., p. 420, 1889 ; Heartland, Birds Melb. Distr., p. 116, 1900 ; 
Bennett, Records Austr. Mus., Vol. I., p. 119, 1891. 
Carphibis spinicollis Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vogel., p. xiv., 1852 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. II., p. 282, 1865 ; Elliot, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 491 ; Lucas, 
Viet. Nat., Vol. I., p. 104, 1884 ; Campbell, ib., Vol. III., p. 166, 1887 ; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 11, 1898 ; Heartland, Trans. Roy. Soc. 
South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 187, 1898 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, p. 942, 1901 ; Le Souef, Viet. Nat., Vol. XVII., p. 180, 1901 ; Carter, Emu, 
Vol. II., p. 105, 1902 ; id., ib., Vol. III., p. 209, 1904 ; “ E. R.,” ib., Vol. IV., p. 78, 
1904 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 203, 1905 ; HaU, Hey Birds Austr., p. 97, 
1906 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 114, 1907 ; Austin, ib., Vol. VII., p. 77, 1907 ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 30, 1908 ; Ingram, Ibis 1909, p. 615 ; Mathews, 
Emu, Vol. IX., p. 66, 1909 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 177 ; Littler, Handb. 
Birds Tasm., p. 190, 1910 ; North, Austr. Mus. Sp. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 5, 1913 ; 
Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 78, 1913. 
Carphibis spinicollis spinicollis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 228, 1912. 
Carphibis spinicollis fitzroyi Mathews, ib. (Fitzroy'' River, North-west Australia). 
Distribution. Australia and Tasmania. 
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