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orbits, and throat, and a fine nuchal crest in the breeding season, 

 the fore-neck being tinged witli buft", except in the last-named. 

 P. leucorodia has yellow naked areas, black feet and bill, with 

 yellow bars and tip to the latter ; P. mhior differs in having the' 



Fig. 30. — Spoonbill. Platalea leucorodia. x\ 



neck-feathers produced to a point on the black throat ; P. regia 

 has the above parts, except a portion of the orbits, black, and P. 

 alba all of them red. The maxilla is transversely corrugated, 

 at least in summer.^ Platihis flavipes of Australia is white, with 

 no crest, but with black outer webs to the decomposed inner 



1 For tlii.s genus see Ogilvie Grant, Ibis. 1889, pp. 32-58. 



