256 IBIDID.E I IBISES. 



hitherto been publicly recorded. " May 25th : Calling 

 at Ogden's (the taxidermist's) he told me he had 

 mounted two more Ibises (since my first one) which 

 came from Middleboro." Thus we have four birds 

 taken, and two others seen, in Eastern Massachusetts, 

 in May, 1850. The Middletown, Connecticut, bird was 

 probably also shot during the same month (May, 1850), 

 and is very likely the same one that Dr. Merriam speaks 

 of in 1877 as in the Museum of the Wesleyan Univer- 

 sity, "taken about 1855" by Dr. Barratt (Cabot says 

 Dr. J. Barrett). 



Thus there must have been a special irruption of 

 Glossy Ibises in Southern New England in May, 1850, 

 doubtless many more than we have heard of. No 

 further record appears for twenty years, until Allen 

 adduces a specimen from Nantucket, Sept., 1869, and 

 one from New Hampshire, October, 1858 (Am. Nat., iii, 

 1870, p. 637). The New Hampshire instance is pre- 

 sumably the same as that cited by Maynard (Nat. Guide, 

 1870, p 145) Stafford Ridge, N. H., and by Dr. 

 Charles Palmer (Am. Nat., v, 1872, p. 120), who says 

 the bird was shot at Alton, N. H. 



In 1878, Dr. Brewer, alluding to previous captures, as 

 above, adds the record of a specimen purchased in 

 Boston market, which had been shot at Orleans, May 

 5, 1878 (Bull. Nutt. Club, iii, 1878, p. 151). 



The same number of the Bulletin, next page (p. 152) 

 gives a note, from Mr. Charles B. Cory, of his examina- 

 tion of a fresh specimen taken on Cape Cod, May 4, 

 1878. A note from Mr. Allen, upon information 

 furnished by Mr. R. Deane, states that this specimen 

 was shot at Eastham, Mass., by Mr. Augustus Denton, 

 and adds: "Mr. N. Vickary, of Lynn, Mass., writes me 



