813. BLACK-FACED SPOONBILL.
PLATALEA MINOR.
Platalea minor, Temm, and Schlegel, Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 120, pl. 76 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br Mus. xxvi. p. 50 ; Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 231.
Male ad. Differs from F. leucorodia in being smaller, in having the bare forehead and bare portion to behind the eye and the upper throat black ; a yellow spot in front of the eye ; feathers on the upper throat extending in a point towards the chin.
Hab. Corea ; Japan (near Nagasaki) ; China and Formosa.
In habits it does not appear to differ from P. leucorodia, but I find nothing on record respecting its nidification.
BookTitle:
A Manual Of Palaearctic Birds
Reference:
Dresser, Henry Eeles. A Manual of Palaearctic Birds. Vol. 2. 1903.
Title in Book:
813. Platalea minor
CatNo:
813
Year:
1903
Page No:
583
Common name:
Black Faced Spoonbill
M_ID:
2159
M_CN:
Black-faced Spoonbill
M_SN:
Platalea minor
Volume:
Vol. 2
id:
10042
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