. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . SB BRITISH THE SPOONBILI,, OR, WHITE SPOONBILL.(Platalea kucorodia, Lin.—La Spatuk, BufF.) The Spoonbill measures two feet eight inches inlength, and is about the bulk of the Common Heron, butits legs and neck are shorter. The whole plumage iswhite, though some few have been noticed with the quillstipped with black. The bill, which flaps together not unlike two pieces ofleather, is the most striking feature in this bird: it is sixinches and a half long, broad and thick at the base, flat towards the extremity, where,
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . SB BRITISH THE SPOONBILI,, OR, WHITE SPOONBILL.(Platalea kucorodia, Lin.—La Spatuk, BufF.) The Spoonbill measures two feet eight inches inlength, and is about the bulk of the Common Heron, butits legs and neck are shorter. The whole plumage iswhite, though some few have been noticed with the quillstipped with black. The bill, which flaps together not unlike two pieces ofleather, is the most striking feature in this bird: it is sixinches and a half long, broad and thick at the base, flat towards the extremity, where, in shape, it iswidened and rounded like the mouth of a mustard spatu- BRITISH BIRDS. 39 la : it is rimmed on the edges with a black border, andterminated with a small downward-bent point or colour of the bill varies in different birds ; in some,the little ridges which wave across the upper bill arespotted, in others striped with black or brown, and gene-rally the ground colour of both mandibles is in differentshades of deeper or lighter yellow : the insides, toward
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