BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS 



by Mr. George O. Welch, May [2], 1874,* now in the collection of 

 the Boston Society of Natural History; Nantucket, a specimen 

 taken by Mr. George H. Mackay, August 31, 



101. Plegadis autumnalis (Hasselq.). GLOSSY IBIS. 

 Accidental from the south. The records are: Of the 1850 



flight,* there are the following Massachusetts records : Cambridge, 

 at Fresh Pond, one shot from a flock of three, May 8, and now in 

 the mounted collection of the Boston Society of Natural History ; 3 

 Concord, one shot by [Mr. Buttrick] in early May, is also in the 

 mounted collection of the Boston Society ; 4 Middltboro, two shot 

 out of a flock of three on May 6 or 7, and now in the Brown Uni- 

 versity collection; 5 Nantucket, one taken in September, 1869. 6 

 Of the 1878 flight, the following are recorded : Eastham, one shot 

 May 4, by Augustus Denton and now in the mounted collection 

 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology ; 7 Orleans, an adult shot 

 on May 5 ; 8 East Orleans, one also shot on May 5 ; 7 Wellesley, the 

 following record must be included though very indefinite : " Mr. 

 [A. L.] Babcock reports seeing a pair exhibited at Framingham 

 many years ago, which were taken at Lake Cochituate." 9 



102. Tantalus loculator Linn. WOOD IBIS. 



Accidental from the south. There are but two records : George- 

 town, one taken by Frank Hale, June 19, 1880 ; 10 Seekonk, a young 

 male taken on July 17, 1896, and now in the collection of Mr. 

 William Brewster. 11 



1 Baird, Brewer & Ridgway ; Water Birds, Vol. I, 1884, p. 338. 



2 Mackay; Auk, Vol. VIII, No. i, Jan., 1891, p. 120. 



* Browne; Auk, Vol. IV, No. 2, Apr., 1887, pp. 97-100. 



3 Cabot; Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. Ill, 1851, p. 313. (Recorded 

 earlier in local daily papers.) 



4 Stearns and Coues; N. E. Bird Life, Vol. II, 1883, p. 255. 



5 Cabot; loc. cit., p. 314. 



6 Allen ; Arrver. Nat., Vol. Ill, No. 12, Feb., 1870, p. 637 ; p. 39 of separate. 



7 Cory and Allen ; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. Ill, No. 3, July, 1878, p. 152. 

 9 Brewer; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. Ill, No. 3, July, 1878, p. 151. 



9 Morse; Birds of Wellesley, 1897, p. 14. 



10 Allen; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. VIII, No. 3, July, 1883, p. 185. 



11 Brewster; Auk, Vol. XIII, No. 4, Oct., 1896, p. 341. 



