196 BIRD GALLERY. 
contain nine grouse, four hares, part of a lamb, a water-rat, and various 
other remains. The nest, a large platform of sticks and dead heather, 
lined with tufts of eagle-grass and bits of Scotch fir, is usually placed 
on a ledge of a cliff, sometimes in a tree or, more rarely, on the ground. 
‘Two, or sometimes three, greyish-white eggs, more or less blotched with 
reddish-brown and lilac, are laid early in April, and the young are on 
the wing by the beginning of August. 
Ross-shire, June. 
Presented by Captain S. G. Reid § W. R, Ogilvie-Grant, Esq. 
No. 159. FLAMINGO. (Phcenicopterus roseus.) 
This handsome species is merely an accidental straggler to the 
British Islands in early autumn, at which season it likewise wanders to 
Germany and Northern France. It is distributed over Southern Kurope, 
the greater part of Asia, and the whole of Africa. In the countries 
surrounding the Mediterranean it nests, locally, in large companies on 
the swampy flats near rivers and lakes, frequently in the vicinity of the 
coast. The round nest of mud, slightly hollowed out on the top, is built 
in shallow water and raised a few inches above the surface. It is rarely 
a foot in height and the bird, when incubating, doubles up its long legs 
beneath it. The two chalky-white eggs are generally laid in the last 
week of May. 
Delta of the Guadalquivir, South Spain, May. 
Presented by Lord Lilford. 
