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CHAPTER VI. 
LATIROSTRAL — FLAT-BEAKED. BOAT-BILL. SPOON- 
BILL. FLAMINGO — MODE OF FEEDING NEST OF 
WATCHFUL HABITS. TENUIROSTRAL, OR LONGIROS- 
TRAL. LONG, SLENDER-BILLED BIRDS. AVOSET. 
SAND-PIPERS. — -DOTTEREL — PRESERVATION OF ITS 
YOUNG. DUNLIN’S NEST AND EGGS. PLOVER 
MODE OF CATCHING. — IBIS MUMMIES OF — WHY 
HELD SACRED. 
Table XXIV. (See vol. i., p. 21.) 
Order 5. Waders. Tribe3. Latirostres, {Flat-beaked.) 
The three genera of this Table have been included 
by some naturalists amongst the cultirostral, or 
cutting-beaked birds, but the general form of their 
beaks renders them easily distinguishable under the 
term latirostral, or flat- beaked. The Spoon-bills, 
indeed, alone really deserve that title to the full 
extent; for the beaks of the Boat-bills and Fla- 
mingoes, though to a certain degree wide and flat- 
tened, have also a considerable degree of depth. 
HEAD OE THE BOAT-BILL. 
The Cancroma, or Boat-bill, so called from the 
boat-formed shape of its beak, resembles the Heron 
