THE FLAMINGOES. 



Great Flamingoes. 



In the Flamingoes the legs are of excessive length. Their wings are small, and their toes partly 

 webbed. They are waders in their habits, but occasionally swim when beyond their depth. They fre- 

 quent low muddy coasts, salt marshes, and the mouths of rivers, biddJhg defiance to the pestilent exhala- 

 tions that drive man fur from their haunts. 

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