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orbits, and throat, and a fine nuchal crest in the breeding season, 

 the fore-neck being tinged with buff, except in the last-named. 

 P. leucorodia has yellow naked areas, black feet and bill, with 

 yellow bars and tip to the latter ; P. minor differs in having the 



FIG. 30. Spoonbill. Platalea leucorodia. x . 



neck-feathers produced to a point on the black throat ; P. regia 

 has the above parts, except a portion of the orbits, black, and P. 

 alba all of them red. The maxilla is transversely corrugated, 

 at least in summer. 1 Platibis flavipes of Australia is white, with 

 no crest, but with black outer webs to the decomposed inner 

 1 For this genus see Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, 1889, pp. 32-58. 



