6h APPENDIX. 



of it: on the fetting on of the wing is a large 

 chefnut fpot : the leffer coverts of a yellowifh buff; 

 the larger coverts whitifh : the web of that next the 

 back half buff and half black : the quil-feathers 

 black : the legs and toes dufky -, and what is fingu- 

 lar in a bird of this genus, the feathers grow down 

 to the knees : the infide of- the middle claw is fer- 

 rated. 



For this defcription, and the drawing, we are 

 indebted to Mr. Plymley. 





IX. The SPOON-BILL. 





Pelecanus feu Platea. Ge/ner Rait fyn. an). 102. 



a-v. 666. Platalea Leucorodia. Lin.jyft* 



Albardeola. Aldr. av. III. 231 Faun. Suec. No. 160. 



160. BriJJon V. 352. 



Spoon-bill. Wil. orn. 288. Loffel-gans. Scopoli, No. 115. 



A 



FLOCK of thefe birds migrated into the 



D* 



marfhes near Yarmouth ', in Norfolk^ in Aprils 

 1774. Thefe birds inhabit the continent of Eu- 

 rope, In Mr. Ray's time, they bred annually in a 

 wood at Sevenhuys, not remote from Leyden : but 

 the wood is now deftroyed ; and thefe birds, with 

 feveral others that formerly frequented the coun- 

 try, are at pfefent become very rare. 



Mr, 



