90 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
southern Illinois south to Texas, and from southern British Columbia to 
southern California; casual in migration in the Rocky Mountain 
region of United States; accidental in New York and Delaware. 
Now of rare occurrence nearly everywhere. 
ORDER ODONTOGLOSS 4. LAMELLIROSTRAL 
GRALLATORES. 
FamMity PHGQNICOPTERIDA. FLAMINGOES. 
GENUS PHCENICOPTERUS Linn us. 
Phenicopterus Linnamus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 139. Type, by 
monotypy, Phenicopterus ruber LINNEUS. 
Phenicépterus riber LiInnNmus. Flamingo. [182.] 
Phenicopterus ruber LINN&EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 139. (Jamaica, 
Cuba, and Bahamas.) 
Rance.— Atlantic coast of subtropical and tropical America, from 
the Bahamas, Florida Keys, and Yucatan to Brazil, and in the 
Galapagos; accidental in South Carolina. 
