ROSEATE SPOONBILL. 
Ajaja ajaja. 
Char. Head bare, skin green, orange, and black ; bill long, broad, 
flat, and widened towards the end ; neck, breast, and back white ; short 
plumes of breast, wings, and tail rich carmine ; tail and patch on neck 
buff ; under parts deep rose color. Length about 30 inches. 
Nest. In a colony, placed amid the tall grass of a salt marsh near the 
mouth of a river or on a marshy sea island ; made of twigs loosely ar. 
tanged, a mere platform, raised several inches from the ground. 
5“7 j dull white or pale buff, spotted with brown ; 2.60 X 1.75. 
The Red or American Spoonbill chiefly dwells within the 
tropical regions of the continent, being common in Jamaica 
and other of the West India islands, as well as in Mexico, 
