23 PHCEXICOrTEEID^, 



This is the largest of all the Flamingoes, and has the largest and 

 strongest bill. 



Hah. Andes of Chili and eastern valleys of the CordiUeras. 



a. Ad. sk. Chili. 



bi 2 ad. sk. Huasco, N. Chili, Feb. H. Berkeley James, Esq. 



(Rahmer). [P.]. 



^~9- c? ? ad. sk. N. Caucosa, Chili (Jan., H. Berkeley James, Esq. 



April). [P.]. 



2. Phcenicoparms jamesi. 



Flamingoes with red breast, Bollaert, Pr. Roy. Geogr. Soc. of London, 

 xxi. (28 April, 1851), p. 120 (Lake of Parinas) ; Fhilippi, Wieym. 

 Arch. 185-5, i. p. 13. 



Phoenicopterus andiuus, part., Sclat. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 334 (Tarapaca) ; 

 G. R. Gr. {nee Phil.) Ibis, 1869, pp.441, 443, pi. sv. fl". 9, 10 

 (head of Bollaert's specimen *); Rchmv. J. f. O. 1877, p. 229 

 (part); Gieb. Thes. (Jrn. iii. p. 108 (part.) (1877); ? Tacz. (nee 

 Phil.) Orn. Per. iii. p. 423 (Bollaert's specim.) (Pariuacocha, 

 Peruvian Andes) (1886). 



Phoenicopterus jamesi, Rahmer, in litt. ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1886, 

 p. 390, pi. xxxvi. and cut of head, f. 3 on p. 400 (Tarapaca) ; 

 Rahmer, J.f. 0. 1887, p. 160 f, tab. ii. f. 1 (head); Cab. J.f. O. 

 1889, p. 76; iSclat. Argent. Orti. ii. p. 117 (1889); id. P. Z. S. 

 1891, p. 132; Berk. James, Neiv List Chil. B. p. 9, n. 142 (1892); 

 Sclat. Ibis, 1893, p. 164. 



• Adult male. " White ; head, upper part of the neck, and -wings 

 tinged with rosy ; tip of the feathers of the nape, upper part of 

 back and of the breast, scapulars, longer inner secondaries or 

 tertials, and axillaries of a rose-blood colour ; quills black ; feet red ; 

 base of the bill yellow, apical portion black ; naked lores llesh- 

 colour; hind toe wanting. Total length about 36 inches, wing 16, 

 tail 6-5, tarsus 8." (Sclater.) + 



Male not in full dress. Pale rose-white, a little brighter on the 

 wing-coverts, longer scapulars, and tertials ; axillaries carmine-red ; 

 quills black ; apical part of the bill black, basal part yellow, with 

 the loral region, a narrow basal band, and the median part of the 

 culmen, between the yellow and the black parts, carmine : " irides 

 dark brown ; legs and feet dark brick-red " (Rahmer). Total length 

 about 34 inches, wing about 16*75, tail 6"5, culmen 3*4, tarsus 9. 



Female. Similar, only somewhat smaller, tarsus 7'25. 



Hah. Andes of Chili, near the Volcano of Isluga, iu the Province 

 of Tarapaca, and of Southern Peru. 



a. Imm. st. Parinacocha, Peruvian W. Bollaert [P.]. 



Andes. 

 b,c.(S 5i°^™-sk. Sitani, Prov. of Tarapaca, H. Berkeley James, Esq. 



Jan. (Rahmer). 



* Gray expresses some doubts as to the specimen figured by him belonging 

 to Ph. andinus. 



t Herr Eahmer states that be has described this species in the Anal. Univ. 

 de Chile for 1886, but I have not succeeded in seeing this publication. 



{ I have translated Sclater's latin description, not having been able to see 

 the type, which is in the possession of Mrs. Berkeley James. 



