443» moSEATE SPOON-BIl. L. 



D I V. II. Water-Fowls. 



SECT. I. Cloven-Footed. 

 XXXIII. SPOON-BILL. Gen. Birds, UK. 



33S. Roseate. Ajaja, Marcgrave, 204. — Wil. Orn. — Raii An. — Platalea ajaja, Lin. Syjl. 231. 



-—Latham, iii. 

 La Spatule d'Amerique, De Buffon, vii. 456. — ?L EnU 165. — Du Pralx, ii. 84. 



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>P.B. With the fore part of the head and throat naked and whitilh : 

 W-J the whole plumage white, tinged with a beautiful rofe-color, deep- 

 eft about the wings and coverts of the tail, where it nearly approaches 

 crimfon. Size of a Goofe. Is an eatable fowl. Is converfant in 

 Place. Louiftana, about the Ihores and rivers ; and lives on water- infedls and 



fmall fifli. Is found ajlb in Mexico*, Guii^m f, Braftl, and in "Jamaica^ 

 and the greater Antilles. The plumage acquires its beauty in propor- 

 tion to the age of the bird \ ; fo probably is whitilh when youn^. 

 It fooii grows tame. 



* Fernandez, 49. f Barrere, 125. | The fame. 



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