. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PLATALEID^. 393. THE SPOONBILL. ^A leucor6dia, Linnseus. Prof. Newton has shown (Tr. Norfolk Soc. 1896, p. 158) that in the time of Edward I. (1300) the Spoonbill was known, under the name of " Popeler," to breed in Norfolk; while up to the days of Willughby and Sir Thomas Browne it used to nest on treesâin company with Heronsâin that county and Suffolk. Mr. Harting has drawn attention to breeding-places near Goodwood in Sussex, and at Fulham in Middlesex (Zool. 1877, p. 425; r886, p. 81) in the sixteenth century, when its usual
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PLATALEID^. 393. THE SPOONBILL. ^A leucor6dia, Linnseus. Prof. Newton has shown (Tr. Norfolk Soc. 1896, p. 158) that in the time of Edward I. (1300) the Spoonbill was known, under the name of " Popeler," to breed in Norfolk; while up to the days of Willughby and Sir Thomas Browne it used to nest on treesâin company with Heronsâin that county and Suffolk. Mr. Harting has drawn attention to breeding-places near Goodwood in Sussex, and at Fulham in Middlesex (Zool. 1877, p. 425; r886, p. 81) in the sixteenth century, when its usual name was "Shoveler,'' or "Shovelard"; and Owen, in 1602, describes it as nesting on high trees in Pembrokeshire. Even now the bird frequently visits East Anglia, and is found from time to time along the south coast, especially in Cornwall; â while occasionally it wanders up the Thames valley. In Pembrokeshire and on the flats of Cardigan Bay it is often seen, though on the west side it is rare. Nine specimens have been recorded from Yorkshire, but northward it is of rare occurrence; stragglers have, however, been obtained in the Inner. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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