CLASS II. 
BIRDS. 
Div. 1. WATER BIRDS. 
Sect. I, CLOVEN FOOTED. 
GENUS I. SPOONBILL. 
Bit long, flat, and thin; the end widening into 
the form of a spoon. | 
Nostrits small, placed near the base. 
ToncueE small, and pointed. 
_Feer half-webbed. | 
Platalea leucorodia. Pl. cor- 
pore albo, gula nigra, occi- 
pite subcristato. Lath. Ind. 
orn. 667. id. Syn. v. 13. 
Pelecanus seu Platea. Gesner 405. 
av. 666. Loffel-gans. Scopoli, No. 115. 
Albardeola. Aldr. av. ii. 160. Arcé. Zool. ii. 139. 
‘Spoonbill Wil. orn. 288. : 
Ran Syn. av. 102. 
Platalea Leucorodia. Gm. Lin. 
613. Faun. Suec. No. 160. 
La Spatule. Brisson av.v. 352. 
Hist. dois. vii. 448. Pl. Enl. 
1. Waite, 
A FLOCK of these birds migrated into the 
marshes near Yarmouth, in Norfolk, in April, 
BQ 
