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PLEGADIS AUTUMNALIS (Linn.). 
Tantalus mexicanus? Ord, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1, 1817, p. 53. Nec 
~Gmel. 
Ibis falcinellus (Linn.) Bonap., Amer. Orn., 4, 1833, p. 23, pl. 23, fig. 1. 
Tbis ordi Bonap., Geogr. & Compar. List, 1838, p. 49. 
Coll. W. Brewster No. 48861. This is without question the speci- 
men described and figured in Bonaparte’s “ American Ornithology ”’ as 
Ibis falcinellus, and afterward considered by Bonaparte to be a new 
species, [bis ordi. Whether it is the same specimen as the one de- 
scribed at an earlier date by Ord, as Tantalus mexicanus?, is not clear 
from Bonaparte’s narrative. The latter author says that Ord’s 
specimen (which was shot at Great Egg Harbour, N. J., in May, 1817) 
was well preserved in Peale’s Museum. Our specimen is more 
probably the one presented to the Peale Museum by Bonaparte on 
Oct. 10, 1827, as entered in the MS. Records of the Museum, now in 
the possession of the Pennsylvania Historical Society. There are 
two more examples of the Glossy Ibis in the Boston Museum collection. 
Mr. Brewster bought the Bonaparte specimen of Mr. Maynard when 
the Boston Museum collection was in his possession in Newtonville, 
Mass. (see page 126). 
ARDEA HERODIAS HERODIAS Linn. 
M. C. Z. No. 67827. This specimen appears to be the bird repre- 
sented on Wilson’s plate, 8, 1814, pl. 65, fig. 2. 
GRUS AMERICANA (Linn.). 
M. C. Z. No. 67828. Making allowance for bad drawing, I think 
this is the bird figured by Wilson as Ardea americana, 8, 1814, pl. 64, 
fig. 3. In the figure the wings are more closely ‘applied to the sides 
than they are in the specimen. Wilson’s drawing in this instance is 
very poor; the conspicuous tertials look as if they sprang from the 
middle line of the body, like a Cock’s tail. 
Wilson’s bird was no. 3704 of the Peale Museum. According to Dr. 
Mease! the Peale Museum specimen came from the Capes of the 
Delaware. 
| ! The Picture of Philadelphia. By James Mease,M.D. Philadelphia: 1811, p. 312. 
