DISSOURA. 159 
132. PLATALEA MINOR Temminck and Schlegel. 
LESSER SPOONBILL, 
Platalea minor TEMMINCK and SCHLEGEL, Fauna Japonica Aves (1850), 120, 
pl. 76; Swarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1898), 26, 50; Hand-List (1889), 
1, 188; McGrecor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1906), 1, 766. 
Luzon (Banks). Korea, Japan, China, and Formosa. 
“Adult male——Entirely white with a small but full nuchal crest; bare 
forehead black, the black skin extending just behind the eye and occupy- 
ing the sides of the face, fore parts of cheeks, and upper throat, on 
which the white feathers impinge in a triangular form in the center; a 
yellow spot in front of the eye. ‘Bill slate-color, transversely barred 
with black, the bars broken and disconnected on the spatule; apical edge 
black, succeeded by a patch and scattered spots of orange-ocher over the 
spatule, which is also freckled with lght slate-color; inside of mouth 
deep indigo-black; inside of nostrils ocherous; bare skin of face black, 
with a bright yellow-ocher patch before eye, extending over under lid, and 
a thin line over upper lid; legs purplish black; iris blood-red.’ (Swin- 
hoe.) Length, 685; culmen, 183; wing, 371; tail, 107; tarsus, 121. 
“Adult female.-—Similar to the male. ‘Bill flesh-color, longitudinally 
streaked and speckled with blackish, mottled and freckled with slate- 
color, chiefly about the spatule; bare skin of face dull purplish brown; 
feet purplish black; iris yellowish brown.’ (Swinhoe.) Length, 660; 
culmen, 185; wing, 356; tail, 102; tarsus, 119. 
“Young.—Differs from the adults in having a more yellowish bill, and 
blackish shaft-stripes to the quills; outer primaries blackish at ends of 
outer webs.” (Sharpe.) 
Mr. Charles 8. Banks of the Bureau of Science brought the head of 
a spoonbill from Dagupan, Luzon, where he found this species not un- 
common in November, 1907. While I have referred this specimen to 
Platalea minor its specific identity is uncertain. 
Suborder CICONLA. 
Family CICONIIDA. 
Bill long, stout, compressed, and tapering, tip pointed ; culmen straight 
except at the tip; nostril pervious in a slit; wing large; secondaries longer 
than primaries; tail short; tarsus about as long as culmen and covered 
with small hexagonal scales; hind toe about half the length of inner toe; 
nails short and blunt. 
Subfamily CICONIIN 4. 
Genus DISSOURA Cabanis, 1850. 
Character same as those given for the Family. 
