LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Order ARDEIFORMES. 
Family PLEGADIDiE. 
CXXXIX. Genus THRESKIORNIS. 
Threskiornis Gray, Appendix List Genera Birds, p. 13, 1842 (before April). Type (by original designation) : 
Tantalus cethiopicus Latham. 
154. THRESKIORNIS MOLUCCA. WHITE IBIS. 
[Ibis molucca Cuvier, Regne Anim., 2nd ed., Yol. I., p. 520 (note), April 11th, 1829 : Molucca Islands. Extra- 
limit ah] 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 46 (pt. xvii.), Dec. 1st, 1844. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 4, pi. 177, Dec. 31st, 
1913. 
Ibis strietipennis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 7, April 1st, 1838 : New South Wales. 
Ibis molucca alligator Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 227, Jan. 31st, 1912 : South Alligator River, Northern 
Territory. 
Distribution. Australia generally. Not Tasmania. 
CXL. Genus CARPHIBIS. 
Carphibis Reichenbaeh, Nat. Syst. Vogel, p. xiv., 1852 (?1853). Type (by original designation) : Ibis spinicollis 
Jameson. 
155. CARPHIBIS SPINICOLLIS. STRAW-NECKED IBIS. 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi 45 (pt. xvii.), Dec. 1st, 1844. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 5, pi. 178, March 
26th, 1914. 
Ibis spinicollis Jameson, Edinb. New Philos. Journ., Vol. XIX., p. 213, July 1835 : banks of the Murray, New 
South Wales. 
Ibis larmllicollis Lafresnaye, Mag. de Zool., 1836, Ois., pi. 57 : New South Wales. 
Ibis australis Jardine and Selby, Illus. Ornith., n.s., Vol. IV., pt. 3, text to pi. xvii., Dec. 1st, 1837 : New South 
Wales. 
Ibis lathami, Jardine and Selby, ib. In synonymy. 
Carphibis spinicollis fltzroi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 228, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Fitzroy River, North-west 
Australia. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
CXLI. Genus PLEGADIS. 
Plegadis Kaup, Skizz. Entwick-Gesch. Nat. Syst., p. 82, (pref. April) 1829. Type (by monotypy) : Tantalus 
falcinellus Linne. 
Tantalides Wagler, Isis, 1832, heft xi., col. 1231, Nov. Type (by subsequent designation, Salvadori, Ornith. Pap. 
e Mol., Vol. 3, p. 332, 1882) : T. falcinellus Linne. 
Falcinellus Gray, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed., p. 87, Sept. 1841. Type (by original designation) : T. falcinellus 
Linne. \ \ 
Not of Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith., p. 47, April 14th, 1816. 
t 
Plegadornis Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 290 (dated July). Type (by monotypy) : T. falcinellus Linne. 
Egatheus Lonnberg, Journ. fur Ornith., 1906, p. 533 (pt. iv.). Type (by monotypy): E. autumnalis — T. 
falcinellus Linne. 
Not of Billberg, Synops. Faunae Scand., Vol. I., pt. ii., tab. A, 1828, c/. Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II.,pts. 
2 and 3, p. 41, Oct. 23rd, 1913. 
156. PLEGADIS FALCINELLUS. GLOSSY IBIS. 
[Tantalus falcinellus Linne, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., p. 241, pref. May 24th, 1766. Austria. Extra-limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 47 (pt. xvii.), Dec. 1st, 1844. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 5, pi. 179, March 
26th, 1914. r 
Ibis peregrins Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 159, 1855, after April 15th : Celebes. 
Ibis ( Falcinellus ) humeralis De Vis, Ann. Rep. Brit. New Guinea, 1896-97, p. 90, (after Feb. 22nd and before 
June) 1898. Laloki River, British New Guinea. 
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