148 BIRDS OF LANCASHIRE. 



FAMILY PLATALEID^.— GENUS PLATALEA. 



SPOONBILL. 



Platalea leucorodia, Linnseus. 



A Spoonbill was shot on the Eibble in the year 1840 

 by a man named Bramley, and passed into the collection 

 of ]\rr, J. B. Hodgliinson, who generously presented it, 

 with all his other l)irds, to the Preston Museum, and 

 there it still remains. The time of the year at which it 

 occurred is not known. 



FAMILY IBIDID.E.— GENUS PLEGADIS. 



GLOSSY IBIS. 



Plegadis falcinellus (Linnaeus). 



An example of the Glossy Ibis is catalogued in "A 

 Companion to the Liverpool Museum, at the house of 

 William Bullock, Church Street" (6th edit., 1808), as 

 having been shot near Liverpool, and is described as 

 " of a dark olive-brown colour with green reflections." 

 A second is mentioned by Montagu (" Diet. Brit. 

 Birds," Supp., 1813) as also having been shot near 

 Liverpool, " within these two or three years," and the 

 plumage is particularized, showing it to have been an 

 immature bird. A third was reported by Dr. Skaife, of 

 Blackburn (who said it had occurred near Fleetwood), 

 to Yarrell, and the latter acknowledged the information 

 in the 3rd edition of his " British Birds," published in 

 1856. A fourth, also immature, is in the possession of 



