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SPOONBILL. 
WHITE SPOONBILL. 
Platalea leucorodia , 
“ nivea , 
Pennant. Montagu. 
Cuvier. 
Platalea. Platus — Broad. Leucorodia . 
Podia —.? 
Leucos — White. 
This curious bird was formerly a regular summer visitor 
to this country, and built in communities. 
In Europe, it is plentiful in Holland, Hungary, and the 
south of Prance; also in Turkey and Greece. It inhabits the 
more temperate parts of Russia and Norway, and appears 
to have been met with formerly as far north as Bothnia, 
Lapland, and the Perroe Islands. In Asia, it belongs also 
to Siberia, and used to be noticed even beyond the Lake 
Baikal; also in Persia, in India, in the Bukkun, and in 
Syria; as likewise in the region between the Black Sea and 
the Caspian Sea. It is known in Africa to the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
Spoonbills used formerly to breed in the county of Norfolk, 
as for instance at Claxton and Rudham. A flock were seen 
in the marshes near Yarmouth, in April, 1774, and several 
have been obtained in the same neighbourhood recently. In 
Yorkshire, one, I was informed, was shot near Masham; and 
Hr. Parrar obtained a specimen from Staincross, in July, 1833, 
but from the state of its wings he thought it must have 
escaped from confinement. One was shot at Wilberfoss, near 
Pocldington, in the East-Riding, on the 2nd. of August, 1831. 
In Cornwall, in the year 1843, on the 13th. of October, 
a flock of eleven Spoonbills was observed to fly over Hayle, 
and Jour of them were shot at Gwithian, near St. Ives. One 
