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 ODONTOGLOSSjE. 



PHCENICOPTERIDtE. 



PH(ENICOPTERIDJE. 



Phcenicopterus roseus, Pallas."* 

 THE FLAMINGO. 



Pho-;nicoptekl.s, Z?;-/«sont.— Bill longer than the head, abruptly bent in the 

 middle, edges of both mandibles furnished with fine transverse lamelkc ; nostrils 

 linear, sub-basal. Neck very long and slender. Wings moderately long, the 

 first quill-feather slightly the longest ; the inner secondaries longer than, and 

 folding over, the closed primaries. Tail short, even. Legs very long and 

 slender ; the chief portion of the tibia bare ; tarsus broadly scutellate ; toes 



* Zoographia Ro.sso-Asiatica, ii. p. 207 (1811). 

 t Ornithologie, vi. p. 532 (1760). 



