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The boatbill, of which only one species is known, seems to be merely a night-heron with an exaggerated bill,—so much widened as to suggest its English name,—but has always been allowed generic rank.

Bonaparte regards it as intermediate between the pelican and the boatbill.

While in quest of these, the blue heron, the large and small brown heron, the boatbill and muscovy duck now and then rise up before you.

If we listen to Reinhurdt, we must place it, not alongside of the boatbill, but alongside of the African genus Scopus.

The boatbill, says he, is merely a heron provided with a singular bill, which has but little analogy with that of the bal�niceps, and not a true resemblance.