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SUB-FAMILY I. 

 Phcexicopterin.e.* The Flamingoes. 



Geiv. Chaeac. — Bill larji^e, compressed, suddenly bent downwards in the 

 middle, and the lateral margins laminated ; the tarsi very long, slender, 

 with the tibia also lengthend and naked ; the toes short, the anterior ones 

 united by a membranons web. 



Fig. 192.— the tlamingo. 

 (Fhcenieopteriis ruler.) 



* (poiviK^o(;,T^\icemkeoB, 'piii'iile {rose-coloured)-, inipor, pteron, 

 wing ; Eed- winged. 



