SPOONBILL. 153 
FAMILY PLATALEID. 
SPOONBILL. 
PLATALEA LEUCORODIA, Linnzeus. 
The Spoonbill, like the Night Heron and Little 
Bittern, is very rare in the west of England, but it has 
occurred at least twice in Cheshire. Brockholes says 
that ‘a specimen was shot about the year 1859 on the 
Dee Marshes, near Burton, ! and another is said to 
have been shot at Burton in 1864;? but, as Dr. Dobie 
suggests, these are probably one and the same bird.? 
An adult in summer plumage, shot at Tatton Mere 
about forty or fifty years ago by Mr. R. Nunnerley, 
senior, is now in the collection of Mr, R. Nunnerley of 
Congleton. 
1 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 11. 
2 H. E. Smith, op. cit. p. 241. 
* Dobie, op. cit. p. 320. 
