VO r3^ in ] Faxon, Abbot's Drawings of Georgia Birds. 209 



obtained in Washington Co., Texas, by Dr. Lincecum in 1869, 

 but not recorded till 1872, in Coues's ' Key to North American 

 Birds,' p. 137. Soon after, Dr. Coues himself had the pleasure of 

 securing several examples of the discredited species in Dakota, in 

 1S73. 1 But not until 1878, about seventy years after Abbot drew 

 the portrait of Leconte's Sparrow in Georgia, was this bird redis- 

 covered east of the Mississippi — in winter-quarters at Coosada, 

 Ala.,— by N. C. Brown.- Finally, in 188 1, Mr. C. J. Maynard 3 

 detected it in Florida, and Mr. L. M. Loomis 4 in Chester Co., 

 South Carolina. 



Further on we come to No. 161, the Scarlet Ibis. Most of 

 the records of the Scarlet Ibis as a bird of the United States 

 rest upon rather questionable evidence. Wilson 5 supposed that 

 it was found in the extreme southern part of Carolina, and in 

 Georgia and Florida. The best Audubon could do was to get 

 a glimpse of three, flying over the tops of the trees near Bayou 

 Sara, La., in July, 1S21. 6 A fragment of a specimen was 

 examined by Dr. Coues on the Rio Grande at Los Pinos, New 

 Mexico, in June, 1864. 7 One has been recorded as shot in Custer 

 Co., Colorado, in May, 1876.* Mr. Brewster 9 found an old faded 

 and moth-eaten specimen in the museum of the College of 

 Charleston, labelled "Florida." Finally, to end this strange, if 

 not very eventful history, Mr. W. E. D. Scott 10 says that one was 

 seen in Florida in 1888 by a plume-hunter in whom he has perfect 

 confidence. 11 



1 Amer. Nat. VII, 1S73, 74S. Birds of the Northwest, 1S74, 134. 



2 Hull. Nuttall Orn. Club, IV, 1879,8. 



: Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VII, 1SS2, 121. 

 4 Hull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VII, 1SS2, 54. 

 3 American Ornithology, VIII, 1814, 41. 



6 Orn. Biog., V, 1S39, 62. 



7 Key to North American Birds, 1S72, 264 ; id., 1887, 651. 



8 Auk, XI, 1S94, 324. 



9 Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VIII, 1883, 185. 



10 Auk, VI, 1889, 15. 



11 H. B. Bailey, in ' Forest and Stream Bird Notes,' 1881, p. 7S, indexes under 

 Ibis rubra a note in 'Forest and Stream,' III, 5S, relating to some "Pink 

 Curlews" killed by sportsmen at St. Augustine, Fla., in 1874. These "Pink 

 Curlews " were without doubt Roseate Spoonbills. 



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