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Plegadis autumnalis (186). Glossy Ibis. 
« Warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, also more south- 
ern portions of the Eastern United States” (Manual, 124). “At 
very irregular periods in the spring, small flocks have been seen 
on the coast of the Middle States, and on the Eastern Shore of 
Maryland and Virginia,” and one taken near Baltimore, and 
two in the District of Columbia in 1817 are mentioned (Water 
Birds of N. A., i, 95-6). 
Family Crcontrp#—Storks. 
Tantalus loculator (188). Wood Ibis. 
Regularly “north to the Carolinas, casually to Pennsylvania 
and New Jersey” (Key, 653). “The late Judge Libhart, in 
his ornithological report of Lancaster Co., Pa., says: “I ob- 
tained a fine specimen of this species shot from a troop of 10, 
by Mr. M, Ely, on the Susquehanna, in July 1862,” and “ Dr. 
A. C. Treichler, of Elizabethtown, has specimens in his collec- 
tion which were shot in Lancaster Co. in the early part of July, 
1883, shortly after severestorms” (Birds Pa., 53). “OnJuly2 
1893, Mr. Fred. Zoller brought me 2 females, adult and young ; 
they were killed on the flats a short distance from the Washing- 
ton monument, and on the Maryland side of the Potomac” (E. 
M. Hasbrouck, Auk, x, 92). Two were taken near Bloomery, 
Hampshire Co., W. Va., by Dr. A. Wall (American Field, 
xxii, 82). 
Mr. Robert Shriver, of Cumberland, writes me: “About 30 
years ago I shot a Wood Ibis. This was the only specimen I 
ever saw ; it was first seen by myself near the Potomac River 
bank, but before it was captured a dozen hunters were after it 
and it evaded them for several days. I always valued this 
specimen highly and am sorry it has gone ‘the way of all flesh.’” 
On October 15, 1893, Mr. Jacob F. Saylor described a bird 
to me taken during “wheat harvest” at the bend of the Gun- 
powder Falls in Dulaney’s Valley, Baltimore Co.; from his de- 
scription, and later corroboration by Mr. Dukehart, I am satis- 
fied it can be no other than this species. 
