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PLATEA LEUCOBODIA. 



(SPOONBILL.) 



Platea, Briss. Orn. v. p. 352 (1760). 



Platalea leucorodia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 231 (1766). 



Platea leucopodius, S. G. Gmelin, Reise, p. 163 (1770). 



La Spatule, Buff. Ois. vii. p. 448. pi. xxiv. (1780). 



Platea leucorodia (L.), Leach, Syst. Cat. M. & B. Brit. Mus. p. 33 (1816). 



Platalea nivea, Cuvier, Regne An. i. p. 482 (1817), ex Buffon. 



Platalea nivea, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 600, " Holland " (1831). 



Platalea leucorodius, Gloger, Schles. Wirbelth.-Fauna, p. 50. no. 220 (1833). 



Platalea pyrrhops, Hodgson, Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 86. no. 144, "Nipaul" (1844). 



Platalea leucorodia, Linn., G. R. Gray, Hand-list, iii. p. 37 (1871). 



Spatule blanche, French ; Espatula, Patera, Pilatos, Paletone, Spanish ; Palettuni, Italian ; 

 KovXtajoc, Greek; Lqffler, Loffelgans, Loffelreilier, German; I)e Lepelaar, Dutch; Hvid 

 Skeehevia, Skovenceb, Danish ; SJcegaas, Norwegian ; Warzecha, Polish ; Kolpitza, Russian ; 

 Boit-kar-lcaba, Moorish. 



Figurce notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PL Enl. 405 ; Werner, Atlas, Gralles, pi. 4 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. xxxiii. ; 

 Fritsch, Vog. Eur. pi. 42. fig. 6 ; Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. pi. lxxvii. fig. 2 ; Gould, B. of Eur. 

 pi. 286 ; id. B. of G. B. iv. pi. xxxii. ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 230 ; Schlegel, Vog. 

 Nederl. pi. 198; Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 310. 



d ad. albus : pileo cristato : gutture imo et pectore superiore flavicanti-ochraceis : gul& et loris nudis flavi- 

 cantibus, ilM vix rufescente lavata : rostro versus basin nigro sordide flavicante notato, et versus apicem 

 flavo vix nigro notato : iride rufescente : pedibus nigricantibus. 



Adult Male in spring (Spain) . Entire plumage pure white, excepting on the lower part of the neck, where it 

 is buffy yellow ; feathers on the nape much elongated, forming a conspicuous occipital crest, these crest- 

 feathers having the filaments disunited ; bill black, marked with dull yellowish, the margins dusky, the 

 terminal portion, or almost all the plate, yellow, marked on the upper portion with black ; loral space 

 pale yellow, the fore portion dusky ; bare portion of the gular region, which extends nearly three inches 

 from the base of the lower mandible, reddish yellow ; iris red; legs and feet dusky blackish. Total 

 length 32 inches, culmen 7 - 2, wing 15, tail 5, tarsus 5, bare part of tibia 35. 



Winter plumage. In the winter the crest is wanting, or less developed than in the summer. 



Female. Similar in plumage to the male, hut having a smaller crest. 



Nestling. Covered with short, pure white down ; the beak already shows the peculiar spoon-shape charac- 

 teristic of this species. 



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