Text extracted from Gill B.J.; Bell, B.D.; Chambers, G.K.; Medway, D.G.; Palma, R.L.; Scofield, R.P.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Worthy, T.H. 2010. Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. 4th edition. Wellington, Te Papa Press and Ornithological Society of New Zealand. Pages 156 &165-167.

Order CICONIIFORMES: Herons, Ibises and Allies We recognise only herons, ibises and their allies as members of the Ciconiiformes, following Cracraft et al. (2004) who showed that the use of Ciconiiformes to include most of the non-passerines, sensu Sibley & Monroe (1990), is untenable as the taxon is then paraphyletic.

Suborder THRESKIORNITHES: Ibises and Spoonbills Family THRESKIORNITHIDAE Poche: Ibises and Spoonbills Subfamily THRESKIORNITHINAE Poche: Ibises Threskiornithidae Poche, 1904: Zool. Anzeig. 27: 498 – Type genus Threskiornis G.R. Gray, 1842.

Genus Threskiornis G.R. Gray Threskiornis G.R. Gray, 1842: List Gen. Birds (revised edition) – Appendix: 13 – Type species (by original designation) Tantalus aethiopicus Latham = Threskiornis aethiopicus (Latham). Carphibis Reichenbach, 1853: Avium Syst. Nat. 2(1): 14 – Type species (by original designation) Ibis spinicollis Jameson = Threskiornis spinicollis (Jameson). Setibis Bonaparte, 1856: Compt. Rend. Séa. Acad. Sci., Paris 43: 993. Unnecessary nomen novum for Carphibis Reichenbach, 1853.

Threskiornis molucca Cuvier White Ibis Ibis molucca Cuvier, 1829: Règne Anim. (2nd edition) 1: 520 (note) – Moluccas, Indonesia.

Moluccas to New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Australia. Three subspecies.

Threskiornis molucca strictipennis Gould Australian White Ibis Ibis strictipennis Gould, 1838: Synop. Birds Australia 4, App.: 7 – Australia, restricted to New South Wales (fide Mathews 1913, List Birds Australia: 77). Ibis molucca strictipennis Gould; Mathews 1912, Novit. Zool. 18(3): 227. Threskiornis aethiopica strictipennis (Gould); Checklist Committee 1953, Checklist N.Z. Birds: 33. Threskiornis molucca; Checklist Committee 1970, Annot. Checklist Birds N.Z.: 36. Not Ibis molucca Cuvier, 1829. Threskiornis molucca strictipennis (Gould); Checklist Committee 1990, Checklist Birds N.Z.: 95.

Southern New Guinea and Australia. Straggler to Tasmania and New Zealand. First recorded at Appleby, near Nelson, in 1925 (Moncrieff 1925). Minor irruptions in 1957 (Falla 1958) and 1975, probably of young (subadult) birds, which, during their stay, apparently drifted north (Heather 1978). Last record was Helensville, 1989 (Taylor 1990). Two records from Norfolk Island, 1975 (McKean et al. 1976) and 1976 (Moore 1981).