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CHAPTER VI. 



LATIROSTRAL FLAT-BEAKED. BOAT-BILL. SPOON-BILL. 



FLAMINGO MODE OF FEEDING NESTS OF WATCHFUL 



HABITS. TENUIROSTRALj OR LONGIROSTRAL LONG, SLEN- 

 DER-BILLED BIRDS. AVOSET. SAND-PIPERS. DOTTEREL. 



PRESERVATION OF ITS YOUNG. DUNLIN'S NEST AND EGGS. 



PLOVER MODE OF CATCHING. IBIS MUMMIES OF WHY 



HELD SACRED. 



TABLE XXIV. (See vol. i., p. 21.) 

 Order 5. WADERS. Tribe 3. LATIROSTRES, (Flat-leaked.} 



THE three genera of this Table have been included 

 by some naturalists amongst the cultirostral, or 

 cutting-beaked birds, but the general form of their 

 beaks renders them easily distinguishable under the 

 term latirostral, or flat-beaked. The Spoon-bills, 

 indeed, alone really deserve that title to the full 

 extent; for the beaks of the Boat-bills and Fla- 

 mingoes, though to a certain degree wide and flat- 

 tened, have also a considerable degree of depth. 



Head, of the Boat-bill. 



The Cancromn, or Boat-bill, so called from the 

 boat-formed shape of its beak, resembles the Heron 



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