SIM .. \mi.Ls. 125 



This specie* rarely occurs east of the Mississippi Valley, lit habits 

 are said to resemble those of the preceding species, "but its cry is 

 very different, resembling the notes of a French horn and U-ing rery 

 sonorous." 



The WHOOPINO SWAM (179. Olor cyyntu) U an Old World specie* whi.-h 

 aomettme* U found in Greenland. It differ* fn.iu .-ith.-r of our Swan* in 

 having the u ba*al |>union of the bill un.l utm- lore* yellow in the adult." 



ORDER ODONTOGLOSS-ff:. LAMELLIROSTRAL 

 GRALLATORES. 



FAMILY PHCENICOPTERID.*. FLAMINGOES. 



The seven species included in this family arc distributed through- 

 out the tropic*. Five species are American, of which one reaches our 

 southern border in Florida. Flamingoes are gregarious at all seasons. 

 They are rarely found far from the seacoasts, and their favorite re- 

 sorts are shallow bays or vast mud flats which are flooded at high 

 water. In feeding, the bill is pressed downward into the mud, its pe- 

 culiar shape making the point then tum upward. The ridges along 

 its sides, as in the bills of Ducks, serve as strainers through which are 

 forced the sand and mud taken in with the food. 



182. Phcenicopterua ruber (Linn.}. FLAMINGO. (Sec Fig. 18.) 

 Ad. Beautiful rosy vermilion. scapularx and under part** somewhat paler, 

 flanks carmine, primaries and secondaries black ; bill yellowish black at the 

 tip. 7m, u Grayish white, the wings varied with grayish and dusky" 

 (Ridgw.). L., 46-00 ; W., 16-25 ; Tar., 12-50 ; B., 5-50. 



KatKjt. Atlantic coasts of tropical and subtropical America; resident in 

 southwestern Florida (Monroe County) ; casual along the Gulf const to Texas; 

 Mtal in South Carolina. 



A<M<, in mud flats, a truncate cone of mud ten to twenty inches in hr'urht. 

 hollowed on top. Eggt^ two, soiled whiti.-li with a chalky deposit, 3-55 x 2*20. 



The Flamingo is resident in the United States only in the vicinity 

 of Cape Sable, Fla., where in 1890 Mr. W. E. D. Scott observed a flock 

 of about a thousand birds (The Auk, vii, Ib90, pp. 221-236). 



ORDER HERODIONES. HERONS, STORKS, IBISES, 



ETC. 



FAMILY PLATALETOJC. SPOONBILLS. 



The Spoonbills inhabit the warmer parts of the world. Only one 

 of the five or six species is found in America. They frequent the 



