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ROSEATE SPOONBILL. 
The trachea is curiously formed, having a double 
flexure like a figure of eight, but the convolutions 
do not cross each other, the points of contact 
being united by a fine membrane. 
ROSEATE SPOONBILL. 
-V (Platalea Ajaja.) 
Pl. corpore reclricibusque roseis, tectricibus caud<£ coccineis. 
Spoonbill with the body and tail rose-coloured j the tail-coverts 
crimson. 
Platalea Ajaja. Linn. Sj/st. Nat. 1. 231. 2. — Gmel. S^st. Nat, 1. 
6l4. — Lath. Lnd. Orn. 2. 668. 2. 
Platea Brasiliensis Ajaja dicta. Rail. Syn. 102. 3. 
Platea rosea. Briss. Or?i. 5. 356. 6. jd. 30. young. 
Platea coccinea. Briss. Orn. 5. 359. 3. 
Platea mexicana, Tlauhquechul. Raii. Syn. 102. 2. 
La Spatule couleur de rose. Buff. Ois. y. 456. — Buff. PI. Enl, 
165. 
Scarlet Spoonbill. Sloan. Jam. 2. 3l6. — Will. Ang. 28p. 2. — 
Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. l6. — Wills. Amer. Orn. y. 123.1xiii.y^ 1. 
Brasilian Roseate Spoonbill. Will. Ang. 28Q. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 
5. 16. jd. 73. 
This most elegant species is two feet three inches 
in length : the beak is six inches in length, and 
marked all round with a groove parallel to the 
margin ; it is of a greyish white, and slightly 
transparent, shewing the ramifications of the blood- 
