11)0 PHCEXICOPTERTD^:. 



and the northern Baltic across north Russia and Siberia to 

 Bering sea. In winter it is occasionally met with on the 

 coasts of Norway and ranges southwards along the Atlantic 

 coast of Europe to Morocco, the Swiss Lakes, the Medi- 

 terranean, Black and Caspian seas, north India, China, and 

 Japan, as well as the Commander Islands. It is said to 

 have occurred in North America. 



Order PHCENICOPTERIFORME3. 

 Family PHCENICOPTERID^E. 



Genus PHCENICOPTERUS Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. 1758, 



p. 139. 

 Type : P. ruler Linn. 



Phcenifopterns ^oivticoTrrepof, a; flamingo in Pliny from 0olyi=red and 

 irTfft6v = a, wing. 



Phcenicopterus antiquorum. FLAMINGO. 



Phoenicopterus antiquorum Temminck, Man. d'Orn. 

 2nd ed. ii. 1820, p. 587 : Europe. 



Phoenicopterus roseus PalL ; Salvador i^ Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 



1895, p. 12 ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 395. 

 Antiqv*>rum=of the ancient writers. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. It 

 has occurred three times : Staffordshire, Sept. 1881 ; 

 Hampshire, Nov. 1883 ; Kent, Aug. 1884. About a dozen 

 other instances have been recorded, all of which probably 

 refer to birds which have escaped from captivity. 



General Distribution. The Flamingo inhabits southern 

 Europe from Spain and the south of France eastwards, and 

 ranges from the Caspian sea across western Siberia to Lake 

 Baikal, and to the Persian Gulf, India, and Ceylon. It is 

 also found throughout Africa, and breeds in the Cape Verde 

 Islands, but apparently nowhere else within the tropics. 

 Many stragglers have occurred in western Europe as far 

 north as the lower Rhine and Pomerania. 



