LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Order ARDEIEORMES. 
Family PLEGADID.E. 
CXXXIX. Genus T FI RES KLORNIS. 
Threskiornis Gray, Appendix List Genera Birds, p. 13, 1842 (before April). Typo (by original designation): 
Tantalus cethiopicus Latham. 
154. THRESKIORNIS MOLUCCA. WHITE IBIS. 
[Ibis molucca Cuvier, Regne Anim., 2nd ed., Vol. I., p. 520 (note), April lltli, 1829 : Molucca Islands. Extra- 
limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 46 (pt. xvii.), Dec. 1st, 1844. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 4, pi. 177, Dec. 31st, 
1913. 
Ibis strictipennis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 7, April 1st, 1838 : Now South Walos. 
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 Reichenbacli, 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. Jo urn., Vol. XIX., p. 213, July 1835 : banks of the Murray, New 
South Wales. 
Ibis lamcllicdllis Lafresnaye, Mag. do Zool., 1836, Ois., pi. 57 : New South Wales. 
Ibis australis Jardine and Selby, Ulus. Oniith., n.s., Vol. IV., pt. 3, text to pi. xvii., Dec. 1st, 1837 : New South 
Wales. 
Ibis lathami , Jardine and Selby, t*6. In synonymy. 
Carphibis spinicollis fitzroi 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 Linn6. 
Tantalides Wagler, Isis, 1832, heft xi., col. 1231, Nov. Type (by subsequent designation, Salvadori, Omith. Pap. 
e Mol., Vol. 3, p. 332, 1882): T. falcinellus Linn6. 
Falcinellus Gray, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed., p. 87, Sept. 1841. Type (by original designation): T. falcinellus 
Linn A 
Not of Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith., p. 47, April 14th, 1816. 
Plegadomis Brelun, Naumannia, 1855, p. 290 (dated July). Type (by monotypy): T. falcinellus Linn6. 
Egatheus Lonnberg, Joum. fur Omith., 1906, p. 533 (pt. iv.). Type (by monotypy): E. autumnalis = T. 
falcinellus Linn6. 
Not of Billberg, Synops. Faunae Scand., Vol. I., pt. ii., tab. A, 1828, cf. Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pts. 
2 and 3, p. 41, Oct. 23rd, 1913. 
156. PLEGADIS FALCINELLUS. GLOSSY IBIS. 
[Tantalus falcinellus Linn£, 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. 
Ibis peregrina 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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