PLATALEA LEUCORODIA. 
WHITE SPOON-BILL. 
Generic Character. 
«^ Bill long, broad, flat, and thin, the end widening into 
a roundifti form, not unlike a fpoon. 
Noftrils, fmall, placed near the bafe* 
Tongue, fmall and pointed. 
Feetj femipalmated." MonL Om, Diff^ 
Synonyms, * 
Platalea LEUCORODIA, Lt'n, Syjl, t.p. 231. 1. Ind. 
Orn. 2. p, 667. 1. 
Spoon-Biil. Alhin's Birds^ 2. iah, 66, Bewick's Br, 
Bird9^ Ft. 2, ^. 38. 
White Spoon-Bill. Br. Zool App. tab, 9. Ar^'L 
ZooL 2. p, 441. A, Suppt. p. 66. 
Lath Syn. 5. 13« i, Mont. Orn^ 
BIB. Vol 2. 
-Length two feet eight inches, weight three pounds 
and a half." Bill near feven inches long, thin and pliable, 
furnifhed with a fmall nail ; the upper mandible has a 
number of irregular protuberances on its furfacc ; irides 
reddifh hazel ; feathers on the hind-head long, frequently 
forming a creil ; lore and throat bare and black ; legs long, 
covered with a thick coarfe fcaly Ikin ; toes conne£led by a 
membrane as far as the fecond joint of the outer and firft of 
the inner toe. In our fpecimen which is a native one^ there 
is a flight tinge of pale pink under the ihoulder» 
This 
