CYGN1N.E. 393 



The female is smaller, and the young birds have the upper 

 plumage, especially the wing-coverts, mixed with brown and 

 dusky spots, and hardly any rosy tinge. 



The Flamingo occurs as a cold weather visitant throughout 

 the district. It is very common on all the larger lakes in Sind, 

 becoming less so further south. 



In the Deccan it is somewhat rare. 



Phaenicopterus minor, Geoff. St. PHIL 



9445/s. Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 281 ; Butler, 

 Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 25 ; Deccan, Stray 

 Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 436. 



THE LESSER FLAMINGO. 



Length, 33 to 35 ; wing, 125 to 1375 ; tail, 4'5 to 475; 

 tarsus, 7 5 to 8'5 ; bill from gape, 35. 



Bill bright crimson-lake, deep vinous-red at base, black at tip ; 

 irides yellow ; legs and feet deep brilliant red. 



In winter plumage the head, neck, and the whole body above 

 and below is a delicate pale rose color ; on the back little more 

 than white, tinged with rosy ; the scapulars are almost white, 

 with a pale rosy streak down the centre ; the quills are black, 

 except the tertials, which are like the scapulars, but slightly 

 pinker ; the wing-coverts are pale rosy-white, the lesser and 

 median broadly centred at the tip with a bright rather pale 

 cerise ; the feathers of the upper portion of the back are many 

 of them similarly centred, and over the broad rosy-white scapulars 

 a number of comparatively narrow, elongated, intensely cherry 

 colored plumes (which reach as far down as the end of the closed 

 wing) have been thrown out ; the whole visible portion of the 

 secondary, lesser and median-coverts have become the most 

 brilliant cherry color with only narrow white tips ; and the lower 

 tail-coverts, flanks and vent feathers are bright rosy, tinged with 

 cherry color, with only narrow white tips. 



The Lesser Flamingo is far less common than P. antiquorum 

 with whom it associates. 



FAMILY, Cygnidae. 



Neck very long ; legs moderate ; front toes broadly webbed ; 

 hind-toe not lobed ; keel long ; biM high at the base, with a 

 fleshy or callous tubercle. 



SUB-FAMILY, Cygninae. 



Bill long as head, with a soft cere ; bill equally broad through- 

 out ; front toes with large web. 



GENUS, Cygnus. 



Cere extending to eye, tip horny ; wings, second and third 

 quills longest ; tail short and rounded. 



