q8 Browne on New England Glossy Ibises. [April 



"May ii. Meeting of the H. N. H. S. I announced the do- 

 nation of the Ibis, with a few words as to its rarity, etc. Much 

 satisfaction expressed. After the meeting Storer, Ball (a leading 

 member), and self, talking the matter over, came to the conclu- 

 sion to propose to the society that we present the Ibis to the Bos- 

 ton N. H. Society, as of great value there from having been 

 obtained in the State, and as it would there be less liable to pos- 

 sible injury or loss." 



"May 24. Meeting H. N. H. S. Exhibited the Mounted Ibis. 

 President introduced the matter of presenting it to the Boston 

 Society, giving the reasons therefor ; some opposition was nat- 

 urally manifested, but it was voted so to do." 



"May 25. Delivered the Ibis to Dr. Cabot, Cur. On., B. N. 

 H. S. He informed me that the specific name falcinellus was in- 

 correct, our bird being two inches longer than the African species, 

 with corresponding difference throughout. Donnovan, he said, 

 had named it guarauyia.'''' 



"Nov. 10. More light on the Ibis. Dr. Cabot said at a recent 

 meeting B. N. H. S. in correction of a previous statement, that 

 Bonaparte, in his 'List' of 183S, had separated our bird as 

 Ordii." 



This example is still in good condition in the Boston Society's 

 collection. 



No. 2. The Concord, Mass., bird. — This must have been shot 

 at about the same time as No. i. The first intelligence of it is 

 entered "May 25. Mr. Thoreau tells me of a Glossy Ibis shot 

 on the river in Concord by Mr. Melvin, and that he has given it to 

 Mr. Holbrook, who has stuffed it." I went up to Concord a few 

 days after (that being my home at the time), identified the bird, 

 and bought it of Holbrook. Took it to Ogden to be set up in 

 better shape, and, as I had not then commenced a collection, 

 gave him permission to dispose of it, if wanted. He soon after 

 sold it to Dr. J. N. Borland, of Boston. Inquiring lately of Dr. 

 Borland as to whether he still held it, he informs me that a few 

 years ago he presented it to the Boston Natural History Society. 



Nos. 3 and 4. The Middleboro', Mass., birds. — Entry: 

 "May 25. Calling at Ogden's he told me that he had mounted 

 two more Ibises, which came from Middleboro'. in this State." 

 There were three in this flock also, two being killed at one shot 

 by a farmer living near Assawampsett Pond in that town, on May 

 6 or 7- They were purchased by Professor Jenks, then prin- 



