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orbits, and throat, and a fine nuchal crest in the breeding season, 
the fore-neck being tinged with buff, except in the last-named. 
P. leucorodia has yellow naked areas, black feet and bill, with 
yellow bars and tip to the latter; P. minor differs in having the 
Fra. 30.—Spoonbill. Platalea leucorodia. xt. 
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.' Platibis flavipes of Australia is white, with 
no crest, but with black outer webs to the decomposed inner 
1 For this genus see Ogilvie Grant, Jbis, 1889, pp. 32-58. 
