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Show 1877] MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE IBIDINSE. 485 straggler; and I am not aware of a specimen having been procured within the limits of this region, although it has been seen a few times by naturalists. Eudocimus albus is found in the southern part of the Alleghany and Rocky-mountain subregions, going northwards as far as the Carolinas and westwards to Texas. In the Neotropical region the remaining species of the subfamily are found. Beginning in the north with the Mexican subregion, we have the E. albus and the Harpiprion cayanensis, which range from Panama, along the northern portion of South America and down the east coast into Brazil-the Brazilian subregion. In the Antillean subregion we find the F. igneus in the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, and perhaps some more; and the E. ruber is a native of Cuba and probably other islands to the southwards, as it is stated to be abundant on the Orinoco and Amazons, in the Brazilian subregion. In Columbia the Phimosus infuscatus is met with ; and this species extends its range southwards to the Argentine Republic. Theristicus caudatus inhabits the continent from Peru on the north to the Straits of Magellan; and the H. ceerulescens is a native of Brazil and the Argentine Republic. C. oxycerca is found in Brazil in the Amazonian subregion, and as far westward as Columbia. F. guarauna appears to be spread over the whole of South America, with perhaps the exception of Peru. In this last country F. ridgwayi is found ; and F. thalassina is an inhabitant of the west coast from the Straits of Magellan to California in the Nearctic region. 1. IBIS CETHIOPICA. Tantalus cethiopicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. (1790), vol. ii. p. 706. sp. 12. Numenius ibis, Cuv. Ann. du Mus. (1805) vol. iv. p. 116, t. 53. Ibis religiosa, Savig. Hist de l'Egypte (1810) Ois. t. 7. fig. 1, (text) vol. iii. p. 392 ; Vieill. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. (1817) vol. xvi. p. 9; Temm. Man. Ornith. (1820) vol. iv. p. 390; Vieill. Ency. Meth. (1823) p. 1144; Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827) sp. 2; Hemp. & Ehrenb. Sym. Phys. (1828) p. 17; Cuv. Regn. Anim. (1829) p. 519; Less. Trait. Orn. (1831) p. 568. sp. 15; Wagl. Isis (1832) p. 1231; Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1832) p. 160. sp. 188; Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1857) vol. ii. p. 151; Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. (1863) livr. iv. p. 12; Kirk, Ibis (1864) p. 364; Bree, B. Eur. 1st ed. vol. iv. p. 45, pl. 13 ; Schleg. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1866; p. 425 ; Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1871) p. 614. Ibis egretta, Temm. Man. Orn. vol. iv. p. 391 ; Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1857) vol. ii. p. 151. Ibis molucca, Cuv. M S . Mus. Paris; id. Regn. Anim. p. 520; Less. Trait. Orn. (1831) p. 568. sp. 13. Tantalus ibis, J. Brookes, Linn. Trans, vol. xvi. (1830) p. 499. Ibis strictipennis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1837) p. 106; Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1857) vol. ii. p. 151 ; Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. (1863) livr. 4, p. 14; Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1873) pp. 467, 638. |