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altitude of two hundred and fifty feet the spatulate bill was observed 

 clearly, serving to identify them with ease. Danforth saw three 

 near the mouth of the Artibonite, July 30, 1927. 



The spoonbill is a large ibis-like bird, with pinkish red and white 

 plumage, having the head and throat more or less bare. It is sepa- 

 rated from all other birds of this region by the long, flattened bill, 

 that is greatly expanded at the tip so as to present the form of a 

 spatula with broadened end. 



Suborder Phoenicopteri 



Family PHOENICOPTERIDAE 



PHOENICOPTERUS RUBER Linnaeus 

 FLAMINGO, FLAMENCO, FLAMAND 



Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 139 

 (Jamaica, Cuba, and Bahamas). 



Flamman, Rochefort, Hist. Nat. Mor. lies Antilles l'Amerique, 1618, pp. 

 151-152 (recorded). 



Flamand, Charlevoix, Hist. Isle Espagnole, vol. 1, 1733, pp. 41-42 (re- 

 corded). — Saint-Mery, Descrip. Part. Frang. lie Saint-Domingue, vol. 2, 179S, 

 pp. Ill, 621 (Gonaives, breeding). 



Flamingo, Saint-Mery, Descript. Span. Part Saint-Domingo, vol. 1, 179S, 

 pp. 85, 306 (Neyba, Azua). — Condit and Ross, Geol. Rec. Dominican Republic, 

 Geol. Sur. Dom. Rep., Mem., vol. 1, 1921, p. 192 (Lake Enriquillo). 



Flammant, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 8, 1781, pp. 4S5-iS6, 491 (He a 

 Vache, Gonave, Lake Enriquillo). 



Flamant, Descourtilz, "Voy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809, pp. 217-220 (Gonaives). 



Flamenco, Walton, Pres. State Span. Col. incl. partic. Rep. Hispaniola, vol. 

 1, 1810, p. 121 (plains of Neiba). 



Phoenicophcrus ruber, Ritter, Naturb. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1S36, pp. 

 151, 156 (Haiti, specimen). 



Phoenicopterus ruber, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soe. London, 1857, p. 236 ("Laguna 

 de Neiba").— Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1S67, p. 97 

 (Dominican Republic). — Tristram, Ibis, 1884, p. 168 (Dominican Republic, 

 specimen).— Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 155 (Haiti) ; Birds Haiti 

 and San Domingo, March, 1885, p. 165, (Gonaives) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 

 1892, p. 88 (Haiti, Dominican Republic). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1S92, 

 pp. 317, 323 (Gonaives, Salt Lakes). — Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp Zool., vol. 61, 

 1917, p. 399 (Monte Cristi, specimen). — Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 491 (Gonave Island, Etang Saumatre, Lower Artibonite, 

 Caracol, Fort Liberte, Lake Lim6n). — Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 361 (Artibonite 

 River ) . 



Phoenicopterus r. ruber, Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 138; Be- 

 neath Tropic Seas, 1928, pp. 108, 218-219 (Etang Saumatre). 



Resident; locally in small numbers. 



Moreau de Saint-Mery in his account of the Dominican Republic 

 informs us that "the plain of Neybe * * * seems to be the 

 chosen spot of the flamingoes * * * which keep in flocks" and 



