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SPOONBILL. 



WHITE SPOONBILL. 



Platalea hucorodia, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" nivea, CUVIEK. 



Platalea. Plat us Broad. Leucorodia. Leucos White. 

 Rodia ? 



THIS curious bird was formerly a regular summer visitor 

 to this country, and built in communities. 



In Europe, it is plentiful in Holland, Hungary, and the 

 south of France; also in Turkey and Greece. It inhabits the 

 more temperate parts of Russia and Norway, and appears 

 to have been met with formerly as far north as Bothnia, 

 Lapland, and the Ferroe Islands. In Asia, it belongs also 

 to Siberia, and used to be noticed even beyond the Lake 

 Baikal; also in Persia, in India, in the Dukkun, and in 

 S3 r ria; as likewise in the region between the Black Sea and 

 the Caspian Sea. It is known in Africa to the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



Spoonbills used formerly to breed in the county of Norfolk, 

 as for instance at Claxton and Rudham. A flock were seen 

 in the marshes near Yarmouth, in Aprilj 1774, and several 

 have been obtained in the same neighbourhood recently. In 

 Yorkshire, one, I was informed, was shot near Masnam; and 

 Dr. Farrar obtained a specimen from Staincross, in July, 1833, 

 but from the state of its wings he thought it must have 

 escaped from, confinement. One was shot at Wilberfoss, near 

 Pocklington, in the East-Riding, on the 2nd. of August, 1831. 



In Cornwall, in the year 1843, on the 13th. of October, 

 a flock of eleven Spoonbills was .observed to fly over Hayle, 

 and four of them were shot at Gwithian, near St. Ives. One 



