CYGNINA. 393 
The female is smaller, and the young birds have the upper 
plumage, especially the wing-coverts, mixed with brown and 
dusky spots, and hardly any rosy tinge. 
The Flamingo occurs as a cold weather visitant throughout 
the district. It is very common on all the larger lakes in Sind, 
becoming less so further south. 
In the Deccan it is somewhat rare. 
Pheenicopterus minor, Geoff. St. Hill. 
944bis.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 281 ; Butler, 
Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 25; Deccan, Stray 
Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 436. 
THE LESSER FLAMINGO. 
Length, 33 to 35 ; wing, 125 to 18°75; tail, 45 to 475; 
tarsus, 75 to 8°5 ; bill from gape, 3 5. 
Bill bright crimson-lake, deep vinous-red at base, black at tip ; 
irides yellow ; legs and feet deep brilliant red. 
In winter plumage the head, neck, and the whole body above 
and below is a delicate pale rose color ; on the back little more 
than white, tinged with rosy ; the scapulars are almost white, 
with a pale rosy streak down the centre ; the quills are black, 
except the tertials, which are like the scapulars, but slightly 
pinker ; the wing-coverts are pale rosy-white, the lesser and 
median broadly centred at the tip with a bright rather pale 
cerise ; the feathers of the upper portion of the back are many 
of them similarly centred, and over the broad rosy-white scapulars 
a number of comparatively narrow, elongated, intensely cherry 
colored plumes (which reach as far down as the end of the closed 
wing) have been thrown out; the whole visible portion of the 
secondary, lesser and median-coverts have become the most 
briliant cherry color with only narrow white tips; and the lower 
tail-coverts, flanks and vent feathers are bright rosy, tinged with 
cherry color, with only narrow white tips. 
The Lesser Flamingo is far less common than P. antiquorwm 
with whom it associates. 
Fairy, Cygnide. 
Neck very long ; legs moderate ; front toes broadly webbed ; 
hind-toe not lobed ; keel long ; bill high at the base, with a 
fleshy or callous tubercle. 
SuB-FAMILY, Cygnine. 
Bill long as head, with a soft cere ; bill equally broad through- 
out ; front toes with large web, 
Genus, Cygnus. 
Cere extending to eye, tip horny ; wings, second and third 
quills longest ; tail short and rounded. 
