. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . lly when it is laterallyviewed, all indicate an affinity to the Tantali and the Spoonbills are also allied in various degrees to theHerons and even the Pelicaninse, which latter they resemblein the bare gular sac especially; so that they clearly presentone of those remarkable centres of radiation, demonstrativeof the absurdity of qu
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . lly when it is laterallyviewed, all indicate an affinity to the Tantali and the Spoonbills are also allied in various degrees to theHerons and even the Pelicaninse, which latter they resemblein the bare gular sac especially; so that they clearly presentone of those remarkable centres of radiation, demonstrativeof the absurdity of quinary and circular arrangements,founded merely on a comparison of skins. It is very remarkable that the trachea differs greatly inthe two species known to me, it being in the American orRoseate divided high up on the neck, the bronchi beingthus of extreme length; while in the European it is notdivided so high, but on reaching the furcula bends uponitself, and then in entering the thorax divides. I have thought it necessary to make the above remarkson the structure of the birds of this genus, because of theerroneous ideas of affinity to which the arrangement ofwriters ignorant of the subject give rise. 503 PLATALEA THE WHITE. I1 I Fio. 40. Platalea Leucorodia. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 231. Platalea Leucorodia. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 667. White Spoonbill. Mont. Orn. Diet, and Supplt. Platalea Leucorodia. Spatule blanche. Temm. Man. dOrn. II. 595. White Spoonbill. Platalea Leucorodia. Selb. Illustr. II. 51. Platelea Leucorodia. White Spoonbill. Jen. Brit. Vert, An. 193. Platalea Leucorodia. Bonap. Comp. List, 48. Adult with a large occipital crest of linear feathers; theloral spaces and throat bare; the bill black, variegated withgrey or dull yellow; a large portion of the expanded part ofthe upper mandible yellow; the plumage white; the cresttinged with yellow; the lower part of the neck and a portionof the breast buff-coloured. Young crestless, with the billdarker,
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