484, ARDEA CINEREA.—PLEGADIS FALCINELLUS. 
[§ 5831. One.—Beaulieu, County Louth, 1849. From Mr. 
R. J. Montgomery, 1862. 
The Heronry at Beaulieu and Mr. Montgomery’s visit to it are mentioned by 
Mr. Thompson (B. Ireland, ii. p. 143 and note). This egg is one taken at that 
time and given to me by Mr. Montgomery in Dublin in 1862. ] 
[§ 5332. One.—* South Russia.” From Herr A. Heinke, of 
Kamuschin, through Dr. Giinther, 1862. | 
[§ 5333. Zwo.—Fox Hall, Donegal, 9 March, 1864. “R. H.” 
Mr. Harvey wrote that these are the contents of a nest taken as above about 
four miles from Letterkenny. “The nest was on the umbrella-shaped top of 
a very tall, straight, and naked old Scotch fir. I had to procure a long ladder 
to enable the boy who was with me to reach the short stumps of broken 
branches, by which he was enabled to get to the nest. The eggs were quite 
fresh : had I waited a few days there would probably have been more.”’| 
PLEGADIS FALCINELLUS (Linneus). 
GLOSSY IBIS. 
§ 5334. One.—From Mr. Green; 1844. 
This egg, of which I nowhere find any description, Mr. Green 
assured me was an undoubtedly authentic specimen. Mr. Yarrell had 
bought one of them. One or two specimens of the Glossy Ibis were 
shot on a pool by the side of the Nottingham Railway near the Derby 
station in 1848. 
: 
| When Mr. Yarrell published his account of this species in the first edition 
of his ‘ British Birds’ (January, 1841) he knew nothing of its nidification or 
eggs, nor did Mr. Hewitson venture to figure the latter in its place in the 
second edition of his work, though he did so (March, 1846) in a supplementary 
plate (xxviii *.) from a specimen in Mr. Wilmot’s collection, the catalogue of 
which states that it was obtained from Mr. Green not later than 1845, and it 
was therefore probably of the same lot as the present; but whence it came 
there is nothing toshew. It seems tobe genuine. As regards the bird or birds 
killed near Derby, one is said by Mr. Montagu Browne (‘ Birds of Leicester- 
shire and Rutland,’ p. 126) to be preserved in the Bickley Collection of the 
Leicester Museum, only the year of its death written on the case is 1842 
instead of 1848. Which is right I cannot say. It is also mentioned by 
Mr. Whitlock (‘ Birds of Derbyshire,’ p. 159).] 
