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Plegadis autumnalis (Linn.). 



Tantalus mexicanus? Ord, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1, 1817, p. .53. Nee 



Gmel. 

 Ibis falcinellus (Linn.) Bonap., Amer. Orn., 4, 1833, p. 23, pi. 23, fig. 1. 

 Ibis ordi Bonap., Geogr. & Compar. List, 1838, p. 49. 



Coll. W. Brewster No. 48861. Thi.s is without question the speci- 

 men described and figured in Bonaparte's " American Ornithology " as 

 Ihis falcinellus, and afterward considered by Bonaparte to be a new 

 species, Ibis ordi. Whether it is the same specimen as the one de- 

 scribed at an earlier date by Ord, as Tantalus mexicanusf, is not clear 

 from Bonaparte's narrative. The latter author says that Ord's 

 specimen (which was shot at Great Egg Harbour, N. J., in May, 1817) 

 was well preserved in Peale's Museum. Our specimen is more 

 probably the one presented to the Peale ]Museum by Bonaparte on 

 Oct. 10, 1827, as entered in the MS. Records of the Museum, now in 

 the possession of the Pennsylvania Historical Society. There are 

 two more examples of the Glos.sy Ibis in the Boston Museum collection. 



Mr. Brewster bought the Bonaparte specimen of Mr. Maynard when 

 the Boston Museum collection was in his possession in Newtonville, 

 Mass. (see page 126). 



Ardea herodias herodias Linn. 



M. C. Z. No. 67827. This specimen appears to be the bird repre- 

 sented on Wilson's plate, 8, 1814, pi. 65, fig. 2. 



GrUS AMERICANA (Linn.). 



M. C. Z. No. 67828. Making allowance for bad drawing, I think 

 this is the bird figured by Wilson as Ardea americana, 8, 1814, pi. 64,. 

 fig. 3. In the .figure the wings are more closely applied to the sides 

 than they are in the specimen. Wilson's drawing in this instance is 

 very poor; the conspicuous tertials look as if they sprang from the 

 middle line of the body, like a Cock's tail. 



Wilson's bird was no.y3704 of the Peale Museum. According to Dr. 

 Mease ^ the Peale Museum specimen came from the Capes of the 

 Delaware. 



1 The Picture of Philadelphia. By .James Mease, M. D. Philadelphia: 1811. p. .312. 



