AysKRANAl'Ili-E. 289 



Phoenicopterus ruber *. 



Phoenicopterus ruber, Linnceus, Syst. Xat. i. p. 230 (17^(1) ; I»;iinl, 

 Brewer, & Ridgw. Water-B. X. Amer. i. p. 415 (188-t). 



The American "Flamingo. 



Hah. Atlantic coasts of Tropical and Subtropical America, 

 from Florida Keys to Northern South America and the Bermudas. 



1371. Articulated skeleton. O. C. 1278. Purchased. 



1372. Skull. 0. C. 1279. Iluntenan. 



Suborder 11. AXSERES\. 



[Seebohm, Classif. B. p. .31 ; Sliarpe, Review, p. 7().] 



A. Palate desmocrnathous. 



B. Basipterygoid processes on the rostrum of the basisphenoid 



articulating with the pterygoids as near the palatines as 

 possible. 



C. Maxillo-palatines completely coalesced across the middle 



line. 



D. Mandible produced and r.'curved behind its articulation 



with the quadrate. 



E. Sternum with only one shallow notch on the posterior 



margin. 



Family AXSERAXATID.E. 



Genus ANSERANAS. 

 Lesson, Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 418 (1^^28). 



Anseranas melanoleucus. 



Anaa melanoleuca, Latham, Ind. Orn., Suppl. p. Ixix (1801). 

 Anseranas mdanoJeucus, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. ]>. 352 

 (i860). 



The Semipalmatisd Goose. 

 Ilal). Australia. 



* Cf. Shufeldt, Science, 1889, pp. 224, 225. 



t Cf. Eyton, * Monogi-aph of the Anatidte,' 1838; Ilolubandvon Pelzelii, 

 Orn. tSiidafr. pp. 314-331, cum fig. (skulls of various Ducks and Geese) ; 

 Shufeldt, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xi. p. 215. 



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