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1. LEUCORODIA. SPOON-BILL. 



PL corpora olbo, gula nigra, occipite subcristato. 

 Lath, 



The bill is yellow, six inches and a half long, 

 broad and thick at the base, and flattened out at the 

 extremity, and crossed by ridges of black and brown ; 

 the inside tuberculated ; the cere is black ; the irides 

 are red ; the crest long ; the plumage is white ; the 

 feet, legs, and bare thighs are dirty black. 



In the young the irides are grey. 



The trachia is doubly reflected in the thorax. A speci- 

 men was shot on Sedgemoor, Somersetshire, 1813. Mont, 

 in Lin. Trans, vol. xii. p. 20. 



They build on trees ; the female lays 3 or 4 white eggs, 

 marked with a few pale red spots. 



GENUS XXXVII. 



ARDEA. 



Bill straight, long, acute; toes connected by a 

 membrane as far as the first joint; in some the 

 middle claw is pectinated. 



