CLASS 11. 



BIRDS. 



Div. 11. WATER BIRDS. 

 Sect. I. CLOVEN FOOTED. 



GENUS I. SPOONBILL.- 



Bill long, flat, and thin ; the end widening into 



the form of a spoon. ' 



Nostrils small, placed near the base. ' 



Tongue small, and pointed. 

 Feet half-webbed. 



Platalea leucorodia. PI. cor- Platalea Leucorodia. 6??w. Zz«. 1. White, 



pore albo, gula nigra, occi- 6l3. Faun. Suec. No. l60. 



pite subcristato. Lath. Ind. La Spatule. Brisson av. v. 352. 



orn. 667. id. Syn. v. 13. Hisf. cfozj. vii.448. Pl.Enl. 



Pelecanus seu Platea. Gesner 405. 



av. C)QQ. Loffel-gans. jScopo/i, No. 115. 



Albardeola. Aldr. av. iii. 16O. Arct. Zuol. ii. 139. 

 Spoonbill Wil. orn. 288. 



Rail Syn. av. 102. 



A FLOCK of these birds migrated into the 

 marshes near Yarmouth, in Norfolk, in April, 



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