254 FLAMINGO 
scientific names are now used in a general sense. The true posi- 
tion of the Flamingos (Phanicopteridx) has been much debated, and 
ornithologists are as yet by no means agreed upon it. Prof. 
Huxley (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 460) considered the form ‘so 
completely intermediate between the Anserine birds on the one 
SS ee == ——— pas 
5 = z ——— 2 
LTTE WORTH 8 NEATH SC : a =a i SS ae — 
FLAMINGO. 
side, and the Storks and Herons on the other, that it can be ranged 
with neither.” And he put it by itself as the type of a group 
AMPHIMORPH® under the larger assemblage of DESMOGNATHA:. 
To Prof. Fiirbringer and Dr. Gadow its affinity to the Spoonbills, 
1 Thus confirming the opinion of Linneus a century old (Syst. Nat. ed. 12, 1. 
p. 230) :—** Medium inter Anseres et Grallas, si quis ad precedentem ordinem 
_referat, forte non errat.” He himself places it among the latter. 
