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PHCENICOPTEKID^:. 



Family PHCENICOPTERID^E. 

 Genus PHCENICOPTERUS, Linn., 1776. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Upper mandible convex above and overlapping 



lower ; wing 14-18 in " P. roseus, p. 408. 



I. Upper mandible flattened above and included be- 

 tween rami of lower ; wing about 13 in P. minor, p. 410. 



1575. Phoenicopterus roseus. The Common Flamingo. 



Phoenicopterus roseus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. Ii, p. 207 (1811) ; 

 Blyth, Cat. p. 299 ; Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 509 ; Jerdoti, B. I. 

 iii, p. 775 ; Hume, S. F. i, p. 257 ; Adam, ibid. p. 400 ; Butler, 

 S. F. iv, p. 25 ; v, pp. 234, 287 ; ix, p. 436 ; Fairbank, S. F. iv, 

 p. 264; Davidson $ Wend. S. F. vii, p. 92; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 91 ; 

 Leffge, Birds Ceyl. p. 1092 ; Reid, S. F. x, p. 78 ; Davidson, ibid. 

 p. 325 ; Hume, ibid. p. 513 ; Parker, Ibis, 1886, p. 188 ; Salvador^ 

 Cat. B. M. xxvii, p. 12 ; Baker, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. xi, p. 2. 



Phoenicopterus antiquorum, Temm. Man. d'Orn. ed. 2, ii, p. 587 

 (1820 ) ; Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 419 ; Blanf. Eastern Pers. ii, p. 300 ; 

 Hume, S. F. vii, p. 491 ; id. Cat. no. 944 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. 

 p. 392 ; id. Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. vi, p. 285 ; St. John, Ibis, 1889, 

 p. 179; Lester, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. viii, p. 553. 



Phoenicopterus andersoni, Brooks, P. A. S. B. 1875, pp. 17, 48 ; 

 Hume, S. F. iii, p. 414. 



Bog-hdns, Rdj-hans, H. ; Kdn-thunti, Beng. ; Pu-konya, Samdrapa- 

 chilluka, Tel. ; Pimari, Tarn. ; Vrian, Tarn. (Ceylon). 



Fig. 100. Head of P. roseus 



Coloration. Head, neck, body, and tail white, more or less 

 suffused with rosy pink ; upper surface of wing with the winglet, 

 tertiaries, wing-lining near the edge of the wing, and axillaries 

 deeper red, approaching cerise ; primaries, secondaries, and greater 

 under wing-coverts black. 



SToung birds have the head, neck, and body whitish, tinged with 



