PHENICOPTERUS RGSEUS. 489 
[§ 5363. Oxe—From the late Mr. Yarrell’s Collection, 1856. 
Included in Lot 373, at the sale. It bears the word “Stork” in 
Mr. Yarrell’s handwriting. | 
[§ 5364. One.—Ouderkerk, Holland, 2 June, 1859. From 
Mr. J. Baker, 1859. | 
PHENICOPTERUS ROSEUS, Pallas. 
[§ 5365. Zwo.—San Lucar, Andalusia, 1865. From Mr. 
Howard Saunders, 1869. 
Mr. Saunders said that he believed this bird had not bred in this locality for 
the last few years. He did not see a nest; but obtained these egzs at Jeres 
(Ibis, 18C9, p. 401). ] 
[§ 5366. Six. —Ktang du Valcarés, Bouches du Rhone, 1870. 
From M. Marius Maiffredy, through Mr. J. W. Clark. 
These were obtained for me by Mr. Clark, whom I had asked to look out for 
some eggs of this bird in the Camargue, and he consequently left a commission 
with M., Maiffredy, of Arles, which was subsequently fulfilled. That gentleman 
wrote to Mr. Clark on the 12th of June, 1870:—“Mon silence devait vous 
faire croire que j’avais entiérement oublié la promesse que je vous avais faite 
de me procurer des ceufs de Flamand du Valcarés; j avais chargé plusieurs 
braconniers de cette commission et je recois & l’instant l’avis que l’on va pouvoir 
probablement remplir mes ordres.” And again on the 31st of July:—“Je 
viens a V’instant d’expédier a votre adresse, au Muséum de Cambridge, une 
caisse contenant six cufs du Flamand de Camargue, parfaitement préparés et 
emballés, J’espére qu’ils vous arriveront sans encombre. Ces ceufs ont été 
trouvés auprés de ma propriété sur les plages de l’étang du Valcarés. 
L’homme qui s’est livré 4 cette recherche m’assure qu'il a vu en plein midi 
les femelles couver sur un céne tronqué de 40 ou 45 centimétres d’élévation, 
un ou deux ceufs, jamais plus. Le nid toujours construit sur un fond argileux 
est un composé de coquilles, pétriés avec de l’argile et d’une grande solidité. 
La mére couve seule a exclusion du mile en s’asseyant dessus.” 
In ‘The Ibis’ for 1870 (pp. 439-442) Mr. Clark published an interesting 
note of his enquiries earlier in that year concerning the Flamingoes of the 
Camargue which led to his obtaining the eggs above mentioned. His chief 
informant, M. Maiffredy, who afterwards sent them to him, said he had himself 
seen twelve or fifteen nests twenty years before, but thought that, owing to 
the changes which had come over the district, the birds would not again breed 
there, though eges might be laid any year. He believed that the hen-bird 
