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Plants, cultivated, more fertile than wild; Nageli, on natural selection in; male flowers of, mature before the female; phenomena of fertilisation in. Platalea, change of plumage in. Platyblemus. Platycercus, young of. Platyphyllum concavum. Platyrrhine monkeys. Platysma myoides. Plecostomus, head-tentacles of the males of a species of. Plecostomus barbatus, peculiar beard of the male.
SPOONBILL. Platalea leucorodia, Linnaeus. French, "Spatule blanche." An occasional but by no means common visitant to the Channel Islands. I have been able to hear of but very few instances of its occurrence or capture of late years; Mr. Couch, however, writes me, in a letter dated November, 1873, that a Spoonbill was brought to him to stuff.
On the Peregrine Falcon, Mr. Blyth, in Charlesworth's 'Mag. of Nat. Hist. vol. i. 1837, p. 304. On Dicrurus, 'Ibis, 1863, p. 44. On the Platalea, 'Ibis, vol. vi. 1864, p. 366. On the Bombycilla, Audubon's 'Ornitholog. Biography, vol. i. p. 229. On the Palaeornis, see, also, Jerdon, 'Birds of India, vol. i. p. 263.
acxoyatzinitzcanquauhtla; composed of acxoyatl, the wild laurel; tzinitzcan, the native name of the Trogon mexicanus, renowned for its beautiful plumage; quauhtli, a tree; and the place-ending tla, meaning abundance. tlauquecholxochiquauhtla; composed of tlauquechol, the native name of the red, spoon-billed heron, Platalea ajaja; xochitl, flower; quauhtli, tree; and the place-ending tla.
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