94 THE BIRDS OF DEVONSHIRE. 



Family Plataleid.e. 

 SPOONBILL. — Platalea leucorodia, Linn. 



A RARE visitant on migration. Montagu mentions 

 that he obtained a young bird, shot near Kings- 

 bridge in November, 1801, as also an old bird, '' in 

 the highest state of beauty," in March, 1807. 

 Dr. Moore adds : " iMr. Comyns has one, shot on 

 the Exe ; '' another, shot on Kenton Warren, in 

 December, 1829, by Mr. W. Tucker : another, shot 

 on the Tamar, is in the collection of C. Tripe, Esq., 

 of Devonport (Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837. p. 321). Dr. 

 Scott records a Spoonbill shot on the Warren Sands 

 at Exmouth in December, 1847, and Dr. Elliot 

 reports two others obtained in the Kingsbridge 

 district. Gatcombe on several occasions examined 

 immature Spoonbills, which had been killed in 

 Cornwall, on the borders of Devon ; but the visits 

 of this species have become more rare than formerly. 

 A Spoonbill killed at Teignmouth, was sold as lot 

 87, at Mr. Cecil Smith's sale at Steven's, London, 

 on June 24th, 1890. 



GLOSSY im^.—PUgadis falcinellus (Linn). 

 A RARE visitant. Montagu obtained three specimens 

 in the County, one of them being shot " in the 

 interior part of Devonshire,'' in September, 1805 

 (Linn. Soc. Tr. IX. p. 198). Dr. Moore mentions 

 three others, one shot near Warleigh on the Tamar 

 and two killed at Slapton Ley (Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1837 p. 321). A seventh was shot at Holsworthy 



