WHITE SPOONBILL. 599 



January, 1838. This species has occurred in Worcester- 

 shire and in Gloucestershire. Several specimens have been 

 killed in Devonshire and in Dorsetshire, one of which hap- 

 pened near Poole. Four are known to have been killed in 

 Suffolk, one of them at Aldborough, the other three at 

 Thorpe, out of a flock of seven. Several have been ob- 

 tained in Norfolk, particularly about Yarmouth. Two 

 examples were received in London from Lincolnshire in 

 1826. Sir Robert Sibbald, as before observed, has re- 

 corded their occurrence in Orkney, and Dr. Fleming men- 

 tions one that was shot in Zetland. 



In September, 1843, a Spoonbill was shot at Lynn ; and 

 E. H. Rodd, Esq. furnished the following notice to the 

 Zoologist soon after. (See page 364.) " On the evening of 

 the 13th of October, 1843, a flock of eleven White Spoon- 

 bills was seen to fly over Hayle, in the western part of 

 Cornwall ; they were at length observed to alight in some 

 marshy ground in the parish of Gwithian, on the north 

 coast, a little to the eastward of St. Ives. Seven of them 

 were shot, four of which I have had an opportunity of 

 examining, and in their general appearance they display a 

 more adult cast of plumage than either of the two Cornish 

 examples which I have succeeded in obtaining before. The 

 plumage of those at present under notice is free from any 

 impurity in its whiteness, and there is a roseate blush ob- 

 servable in some of the dorsal feathers, towards their roots, 

 this tint being especially apparent in, and, as it were, ra- 

 diating from, the shafts of the feathers. Some of the 

 specimens possess a much more extended bill than others, 

 the excess amounting to an inch at least. The whole are 

 without an occipital crest, or dorsal plumes, and it may be 

 a question whether those specimens having bills so much 

 longer than the others, may not be old birds in winter 

 plumage. There is no yellow tint in any portion of the 



