AVES PHCENICOPTERID^. 



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There appears to be no variation in size among adults, in correlation with 

 sex. 



Color. — Adult female (cited). General color, rosy salmon-pink, 

 becoming vermilion on parts of the wings. The quills black. 



Head : Rosy salmon-pink. 



Neck : Rosy salmon-pink, becoming deeper colored toward the body. 



Back : Mantle rosy salmon-pink. Scapulars like the back. Lower 



Fig. 213. 



Fig. 214. 



Phcenicoptcrus chilensis, adult female, 7863 P. U. O. C. 

 Profile of head and bill. 



The same : details of bill from above. 



back, rump and upper tail-coverts pale salmon-pink. The upper tail- 

 coverts extend almost to the end of the rectrices. 



Tail : Rectrices deep rosy salmon-pink. 



Wings : All the coverts clear vermilion on their exposed surfaces, 

 paling toward their bases. The greater series elongate and extending 

 beyond (i in. +) the tips of the primaries, when the wing is closed. The 

 quills black, except the innermost secondaries, which are rosy. 



Lower parts : Breast and chest clear rosy salmon-pink, shading into 

 paler on the sides, flanks, abdomen and lower tail-coverts. The lower 

 tail-coverts long, nearly concealing the rectrices. Under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries clear vermilion. 



Bill : Base of bill and naked skin about the eye white, with a tinge of 

 salmon-pink ; this color prevails till within Jialf an inch of the bend of the 

 bill where it terminates abruptly. The rest of the bill is black (see Fig. 

 214). 



