. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 242 AVES. That of Ceylon (T. leucocephalm) is the largest of all, and has also the thickest bill. Its beak, and the naked skin of the face, are yellow, the plumag-e white, with black quills and cincture round the breast, and long roseate plumes on the croup, which are shed during the rainy season. A fourth may be added, the T. lacteus of Temminck. The Spoonbills {Platalea, Lin.)— Approximate the Storks in their whole structure, but their beak, from which their name is derived, is long, flat, and broad throughout its l
. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 242 AVES. That of Ceylon (T. leucocephalm) is the largest of all, and has also the thickest bill. Its beak, and the naked skin of the face, are yellow, the plumag-e white, with black quills and cincture round the breast, and long roseate plumes on the croup, which are shed during the rainy season. A fourth may be added, the T. lacteus of Temminck. The Spoonbills {Platalea, Lin.)— Approximate the Storks in their whole structure, but their beak, from which their name is derived, is long, flat, and broad throughout its length, widening and flattening more particularly at the end, so as to form a round spatula-like disk ; with two shallow grooves extending its entire length, without being exactly parallel to its edges. The nostrils are oval, and pierced at a small distance from the origin of each groove. Their minute tongue, reticulated tarsi, the somewhat considerable palmature of their toes, their two very small cœca, but slightly muscular gizzard, and inferior larynx without any peculiar muscles, are the same as in the Storks ; but the expansion of their bill deprives it of all its strength, and unfits it for any thing but turning up sand, or picking up small fish and aquatic insects. The White Spoonbill (PI. leucorodia, Gm.).—Entirely white, with an occipital crest. It is common throughout the ancient continent, and nestles in high trees. [The trachea normally undergoes in both sexes a small convolu- tion resembling the figure 8, but we have dissected one female wherein it proceeded straight to the divarication of the bronchi, and was furnished with a small pair of muscles]. The Roseate Spoonbill {PL aJaJa).—A. naked visage, and vivid roseate tints of different shades upon the plumage, which deepen with age. It is properly an inhabitant of South America. The family of LONGIROSTRES Consists of a multitude of Shore-birds, the greater number of which were comprehended by Linnœus in his
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