O SPOONBILL. 



Scarlet Spoonbill, Gen. Syn. v. 16. Sloan. Jam. ii. 316. Bancr. Guian. 170. Will. 

 Engl. 289. § II. 



This is like the last, but wholly of a beautiful red colour, with 

 a collar of black at the lower part of the neck ; irides red. Male 

 and female much alike. 



Said to inhabit Jamaica, Guiana, Mexico, and other hot parts of 

 South America, and is probably a bird in the most complete plumage: 

 common in Paraguay, and expands from Pampas to Buenos Ayres : 

 some Guaranis call it Guirapito, Red Bird ; others Guirati, White 

 Bird. Has the manners of the European One. 



4— SURINAGUR SPOONBILL. 



THIS is a large Species. The bill deep blue, the base for one- 

 third black, with several dusky spots on the sides, and for some 

 distance from the tip ; down the middle for two-thirds from the base 

 yellowish, marked with transverse bars of black, the under man- 

 dible dusky red ; irides reddish ; forehead and throat dusky black ; 

 sides of the head, chin, and neck before to the breast, dusky white ; 

 the same to the vent, but over the thighs reddish, with transverse, 

 red, curved bars ; and the breast marked with long, narrow, dusky 

 streaks ; thighs pale brown, barred with black ; the hind part of 

 the neck, the back, rump, and tail, dull rufous red, the end of the 

 last black ; wings pale red brown ; the lesser coverts darker ; across 

 the middle of the wing a broad, whitish bar, formed by the larger 

 coverts; quills black, and when closed, equal the tail in length ; 

 legs dusky blue above the knee, and a little below it, the rest of the 

 length dull orange red, paler behind ; between the outer and middle 

 toes a membrane at the base ; claws black. 



Inhabits India; the specimen from which the above is described 

 was brought from the snowy mountains of Surinagur, by the name 

 of Dubee. — Sir J. Anstruther. In the drawing, the bird said to be 



