18 .PHCENICOPTEEID^. 



(Burmeisfer). Total length about 42 inches, wing 16, tail 5, 

 culmen 5, tarsus 9-5, bare portion of tibia 6. 



Young. Head and neck dull whitish, greyish round the eyes and 

 on the neck ; lower parts white ; feathers of the breast with mesial 

 brown streaks ; back and scapulars \)ale brown, the edges of the 

 feathers whitish ; rump and upper tail-coverts white, some brown 

 streaks on the rump ; upper wing-coverts brown with paler edges, 

 the smaller ones washed with rosy ; primarj^-corerls brown, with 

 the base rosy ; quills brown-black : tail white : " legs yellowish, 

 with bluish-red articulations " {Burmeisier). 



Hah. Southern part of South America, north on the east to 

 Uruguay and Brazil (?), on the west to Chili and C. Peru. 



a. Ad. St. Chili. T. C. Bridges, Esq. [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Chili. Purchased. 



c. d' vix ad. sk. Chili. Purchased. 



d. Juv. sk. Chuput, Patagonia. H. Duinford, Esq. [P.]. 



2. PH(ENICONAIAS. 



Type. 



Phoeniconaias (subgen.), G. R. Gr. Ibis, 1869, p. 442 .... P. minor. 



Mange. Southern part of Africa, north as far as Senegal (?) on the 

 west, and Abyssinia on the east ; Korth-western India in winter. 



1. Phoeniconaias minor. 



? Le Flamant, F. Cauche, Eelat. verit. et Cur. de V Isle de Madag. 

 p. 130 (1651) (Madagascar). 



PSambe, Flncourt, Hist, de Madac]. p. 164 (1661). 



Phoenicopterus minor, Geoffr. Bull. Sc. Soc. PMlom. i. 2, no. 1.3, p. 98, 

 pi.—. fF. 1, 2, 3 (head) (1798) ; Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 520, pi. M 20, 

 f. 1 (1817) ; Bum. Diet. Sc. Nat. xvii. p. 26 (1820) ; Vinll. Gal. 

 Ois. ii. p. 183, pi. 273 (1825) ; Tem7>i. PI. Col. 419 (,livr. 71, 

 1827) ; Drap. Diet. Class, xiii. p. 362 (1828) ; less. Man. dOrn. 

 ii. p. 244 (1828) ; D'Orh. ^- I. Geoffr. St.-Hil. Ann. Sc. Nat. xvii. 

 p. 454 (1829) ; id. Bull. Sc. Nat. xix. p. 112 (1829) ; Le.^s. Tr. d'Oni. 

 p. 589, n. 4 (1831) ; UOrb. Mag. de Zool. 1832, fasc. 1, p. 2 ; Isis, 

 1834, p. 1094; Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. ix. p. 482 (1837); id. 

 op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 703 (18.38) ; Je?-d. Madr. Journ. xii. p. 217, 

 n. 374 (1840) (India) ; Bilpp. St/st. Uebers. p. 137, n. 484 (1845) 

 (Southern half of the Red Sea) ; Rchnb. Syn. Av., Natatores, 1. 108. 

 f. 420 (1845); BlgtJi, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 299 (1849); 

 StricU.Sf Sclat. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 159 (Damara-1.) ; Brehm, 

 J.f. O. 1854, p. 84 (Red Sea); Bp. Cons}). Gm. Av. ii. p. 146 

 (1855) ; id. Compt. Rend. xHii. p. 993 (1856) ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. 

 p. 65, n. 676 (1856) ; Hartl. Syst. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 246 (1857) ; 

 Heugl. Faun. Roth. Meer, no. 284; Anderss. Ibis, 1865, p. 65 

 (S. Africa) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 345 (1867) ; Bh/tb, Ibis, 

 1867, p. 174 (India) ; ? F. Newt. Ibis, 1867, pp. 351, 369 (Sey- 

 chelles) ; Heugl. Reis. in d. Geb. d. Weiss. Nil, p. 384 (1868") ; 

 Chajm). Trav. S. Afr. ii. ^^;jj. p. 420 (1868) ; Jerd. Ibis, 1869, 



