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the toes. Maxilla much depressed, especially for the terminal hall', everywhere narrower than the 

 mandible, which is greatly thickened in the middle portion, its sides roughened or slightly corru- 

 gated, the end with numerous deep longitudinal sulcations ; maxilla with a distinct lateral groove 

 from the nostril to the tip ; both maxillary and mandibular lamina) exposed. 



P. ru7)er. 



The above characters are drawn from F. ruber, but they apply ecj^ually well to the other spe- 

 cies of the genus, of which about six are known, only two of which are American, one, P. ruber, 

 belonging to the West Indies and shores of the Gulf of Mexico, and the Galapagos, the other. 

 P. ignijKdliatus, peculiar to Southern South America. 



Phoenicopterus ruber. 



THE AMERICAN FLAMINGO. 



Phcenicoptertis ruber, Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 139 (part) ; ed. 12, I. 1766, 230 (part). — Wils. 

 Am. Orn. VIII. 1814, 45, pi. 66. — Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 70. — AuD. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 255, 

 pi. 431 ; Synop. 1839, 269 ; B. Am. VI. 1843, 169, pi. 375. —Cass, in Baird's B. X. Am. 1858, 

 687. — Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 502. — CouES, Key, 1872, 278; Check List, 1873, no. 

 475 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 687. — Eidgw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 585. 



? Phcenicopterus glyphorhynclms, Giiay, Ibis, 1869, pi. 14, fig. 5 (Galapagos). 



Hab Atlantic coasts of tropical and subtropical America from Florida Keys to Northern 

 South America •, Bermudas ; Galapagos ? ( = " ghjphorhyjichus," Gray.) 



Sp. Char. Adult: Prevailing color pure vermilion-scarlet, most intense on the wings, else- 

 where inclining to vermilion-pink ; flanks rosy carmine ; primaries and secondaries uniform deep 

 black. Terminal tliird of the bill (portion beyond the bend) black ; basal portion orange, becoming 

 pure yellow at the extreme base and on the lores ; iris blue ; legs and feet lake-red (Audubon). 



