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DIVISION II. WATER BIRDS. 



ORDER VII. WITH CLOVEN FEET. 



GENUS LXXL— SPOONBILL. 



1 White || 2 Luzonian || 3 Roseate || 4 Surinagur || 5 Dwarf 



BlLL long, broad, flat and thin, the end widening into a roundish 

 form, not unlike a spoon. 



Nostrils small, placed near the base. 



Tongue sharp-pointed. 



Face naked. 



Feet semipalmated. 



1— WHITE SPOONBILL. 



Platalea leucorodia, Ind. Orn. ii. 667. Lin. i. 231. Mus. Adolph. ii. 26. Faun. suec. 



No. 160. Gm, Lin.- i. 613. Scop. i. No. 115. Brun. No. 46. Midler, No. 170. 



Frisch, t. 200. 201. Sepp, t. 88. 89. .fffem, 126. 1. Id. Ov. 34. t. 18. f. 4. 



Dec. Russ. i. 164. Faun. Helv. Tern. Man. 382. Id. Ed. ii. 596. 

 Platea, vel Pelecanus, Aldr. Raii, 102. Will. 212. t. 52. Bris. v. 352. /d. Svo. ii. 



300. Borowsk. iii. 68. t. 45. Gerin. iv. t. 437. Gcsner, Av. pi. p. 603. 

 La Spatule, Buf. vii. 448. t. 24. PL enl. 405. Voy. en Barb. i. 277. 

 Der Weisse Loffel reilier, Bechst. Deut. iii. p. 2. Id. Ed. ii. p. 4. t. 17. Naturf. 



xiii. s. 201. Schmid, Vog. 116. t. 102. 

 Garza, ou Beccarivale, Zinnan. Uov. iii. t. 20. f. 99. 

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