British zoology . coverts of a yellowifh buff;the larger coverts whitifh : the web of that next theback half buff and half black : the quil-feathersblack : the legs and toes dufky -, and what is fingu-lar in a bird of this genus, the feathers grow downto the knees: the infide of- the middle claw is fer-rated. For this defcription, and the drawing, we areindebted to Mr. Plymley. IX. The SPOON-BILL. Pelecanus feu Platea. Ge/ner Rait fyn. an). 102. a-v. 666. Platalea Leucorodia. * Albardeola. Aldr. av. III. 231 Faun. Suec. No. 160. 160. BriJJon V. 352. Spoon-bill. Wil. orn. 288. Loffel-ga
British zoology . coverts of a yellowifh buff;the larger coverts whitifh : the web of that next theback half buff and half black : the quil-feathersblack : the legs and toes dufky -, and what is fingu-lar in a bird of this genus, the feathers grow downto the knees: the infide of- the middle claw is fer-rated. For this defcription, and the drawing, we areindebted to Mr. Plymley. IX. The SPOON-BILL. Pelecanus feu Platea. Ge/ner Rait fyn. an). 102. a-v. 666. Platalea Leucorodia. * Albardeola. Aldr. av. III. 231 Faun. Suec. No. 160. 160. BriJJon V. 352. Spoon-bill. Wil. orn. 288. Loffel-gans. Scopoli, No. 115. A FLOCK of thefe birds migrated into the D* marfhes near Yarmouth, in Norfolk^ in Aprils1774. Thefe birds inhabit the continent of Eu-rope, In Mr. Rays time, they bred annually in awood at Sevenhuys, not remote from Leyden: butthe wood is now deftroyed; and thefe birds, withfeveral others that formerly frequented the coun-try, are at pfefent become very rare. Mr, S P O O 1ST B I L L. APPENDIX. 635 Mr. Jofeph Spar/hall of Yarmouth favored mcwith the following very accurate defcription : The length from the end of the beak to the extre-mity of the middle toe forty inches : breadth of thewings, extended, fifty-two inches: bill, length ofthe upper mandible feven inches; of the lower fixthree-fourths ditto : breadth of the fpoon, near thepoint, two inches; ditto of the nether mandibleone inch feven-eighths: breadth of both, in thenarrowed parr, near the middle, three-fourths ofan inch: a bright orange colored fpot, about thebreadth of a fixpence, juft above the point of theupper mandible, which is a little hooked, or bentdownward at its extremity. At the angles of thebill, on each cheek, a fpot of a bright orange co-lor : the ikin between the fides of the lower man-dible, and extending about three inches down-ward on the throat or neck, covered with veryfine down, almoft imperceptible, which, with thefkin on that part, are of a very bright orange co-l
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