SPOONBILL. 



3 —ROSEATE SPOONBILL — Pl. cxl. 



Platalea Ajaja, Ind. Orn. ii. 668. Lin. i. 231. Gm. Lin. i. 614. Raii, 102. 3. Will. 



213. Klein, 126. 2. Borowsk. Hi. 69. Gerin. iv. t. 438. Nat. Misc. t. 90. 



Bartr. Trav. 291. 

 Platea rosea, Bris. v. 356. t. 20. Id. 8vo. ii. 302. 

 La Spatule couleur de rose, Buf. vii. 456. P/. enl. 165. Pemet. Voy. i. 184. t. 2. 



f. 3. Hist, de la Louis, ii. 116. 

 Bee a cuillier, Perm. Surin. ii. 153. Mem. sur Cay. ii. 257. 

 La Spatule, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 345. 



Roseate Spoonbill, Gen. Syn. v. 16. pl. 73. Will. Engl. 289. Harris's Coll. Voy. i. 

 ~ 728. Amer. Orn. vii. 123. pl. 63. 1'. 1. 



THIS is a trifle smaller than the first ; length two feet three 

 inches. Bill six inches long, in shape like the other, marked all 

 round with a farrow parallel to the edge, and of a greyish white, 

 somewhat transparent, so as to shew the ramification of the blood 

 vessels ; irides red ; the forehead between the bill and eyes, and 

 throat, bare and whitish ; plumage of a fine rose-colour, deeper on 

 the wings ;* legs grey ; toes as in the first species. 



Inhabits the warmer parts of America; seen as far north as 

 Atamaha River, in Georgia : it is, however, according to Mr. Abbot's 

 account, very rare in those parts, but now and then to be met with 

 in the ponds about Savannah, migrating from West Florida, where 

 they are said to be in greater plenty. Prince Maximilian saw thirty 

 oftheni sitting together in a marshy spot near St. Salvador, in Brazil, 

 but so shy, as not to be approached within gun-shot. f 



A.— Platalea Ajaja, Ind. Orn. ii. 668. /3. Lin.i. 231. 2. (3. Gm. Lin.]. 614. 2. /3. 



Platea coccinea, Bris. v. 359. Id. Svo. ii. 303. 



Mexicana, Tlauhquechul, Raii, 102. 2. & 189. 5. Will. 213. Klein, 126. 3. 



* In Mr. Bullock's Museum is one of a pale rose-colour, the lesser wing coverts fine 

 deep rich crimson; upper tail coverts the same; tail plain buff-colour. Another, supposed 

 a young bird, wholly pale rose-colour. f Trav. i. p. 93. 



