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PLATALEA LEUCORODIA. 

 SPOONBILL. 



THE WHITE 



I 

 1 I 



Fio. 40. 



Platalea Leucorodia. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 231. 



Platalea Leucorodia. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 667. 



White Spoonbill. Mont. Orn. Diet, and Supplt. 



Platalea Leucorodia. Spatule blanche. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 595. 



White Spoonbill. Platalea Leucorodia. Selb. Illustr. II. 51. 



Platelea Leucorodia. White Spoonbill. Jen. Brit. Vert, An. 193. 



Platalea Leucorodia. Bonap. Comp. List, 48. 



Adult with a large occipital crest of linear feathers; the 

 loral spaces and throat bare; the bill black, variegated with 

 grey or dull yellow ; a large portion of the expanded part of 

 the upper mandible yellow; the plumage white; the crest 

 tinged with yellow ; the lower part of the neck and a portion 

 of the breast buff -coloured. Young crestless, with the bill 

 darker, the plumage white, without yellow on the neck, and 

 with the shafts of the quills and the tips of the primaries and 

 their coverts black. 



Male. — The White Spoonbill, which is about equal in 

 size to the Egyptian Ibis, occurs so rarely with us, that I am 



