60 BIRD GALLERY. 



contain, nine grouse, four hares, part of a lamb, a water-rat, and various 

 other remains. The nest, a large platform of sticks and dead heather, 

 lined with tufts of eagle-grass and bits of Scotch fir, is usually placed 

 on a ledge of a cliff, sometimes in a tree or, more rarely, on the ground. 

 Two, or sometimes three, greyish-white eggs, more or less blotched with 

 reddish-brown and lilac, are laid early in April, and the young are on 

 the wing by the beginning of August. 



Ross-shire, June. 



Presented by Captain S. G. Reid Sf W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Esq. 



No. 159. FLAMINGO. (Phceiricopterus roseus.) 



This handsome species is merely an accidental straggler to the 

 British Islands in early autumn, at which season it likewise wanders to 

 Germany and Northern France. It is distributed over Southern Europe, 

 the greater part of Asia, and the whole of Africa. In the countries 

 surrounding the Mediterranean it nests, locally, in large companies on 

 the swampy flats near rivers and lakes, frequently in the vicinity of the 

 coast. The round nest of mud, slightly hollowed out on the top, is built 

 in shallow water and raised a few inches above the surface. It is rarely 

 a foot in height and. the bird, when incubating, doubles up its long legs 

 beneath it. The two chalky-white eggs are generally laid in the last 

 week of May. 



Delta of the Guadalquivir, South Spain, May. 

 Presented by Lord Li/ford. 





