THE FLAMINGO. 



Phcenicoplcrus. 



PLATE VIII THE FLAMINGO. 



THE drawing representing the description here given of 

 this extraordinary species of the feathered tribe, was taken 

 from nature by an artist expressly employed for this work. 

 The plate represents the Bowling Green Fountain and Park, 

 at the foot of Broadway, New York, and within the enclo- 

 sure are to be seen two beautiful specimens of this rare bird. 

 The following is copied from one of our 'daily papers. 



"We notice two of those extraordinary individuals of t|?e 

 feathered tribe, the Flamingo, in these grounds. They are 

 a very rare curiosity, and few persons in these parts, have 

 ever seen them except in print. 



" Those at the Bowling Green are about three feet high, 

 to the back, and the neck two feet more. They appear to 

 be in very good health, and are very busily engaged in a 

 continual search for food, (what, could not easily be ascer- 

 tained,) at the bottom of the basin, stepping about with 

 their heads under water, which to them is about knee 

 deep. They raise their heads only now and then, probably 

 to breath. Their legs are remarkably slender, and bare of 

 feathers up to their bodies. The novelty of the sight 

 attracts many spectators, and so rare a bird is indeed wor- 

 thy of attention." 



A very peculiar genus of birds, forming one of the groups 

 which Cuvier has brought together, as detached from his 

 regular division of Echassiers, or stilt birds, and which 

 indeed differ so much from all other birds in some particu- 

 lars, that they form a very small but very peculiar group, 



