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THE FLAMINGO. 



PHrENICOPTERUS ROSEUS, PallaS. 



Early in September 1881 an adult Flamingo was seen for a week 

 or so on the estate of the late Sir John H. Crewe, in the northern 

 part of Staffordshire ; but having crossed the river Manifold to 

 another property, it was captured and taken to the owner of the 

 land, by whom it was kept alive for a few days, and then killed. 

 Another adult bird, recorded by Lord Henry Scott (Zool. 1884, 

 p. 338), was shot on November 26th 1883, on the mud banks outside 

 the Beaulieu river, Hampshire, which it had frequented for about a 

 fortnight after a great gale from the south-west. Capt. G. E. Shelley 

 has informed me that on August 12th 1884, when waiting near New 

 Romney for the evening flights of Curlews, an adult Flamingo flew 

 past him, having been put up by his two nephews, who got within 



