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pagos, is light vermilion with brighter wing-coverts, the yellowish 

 bill having a black tip and the feet being red ; the other forms are 

 rosy-white with the coverts scarlet, while all have black remiges : 

 the naked orbits and lores vary from rose-coloured to yellow, P. 



FIG. 31. Flamingo. Phoeni 



minor, P. andinus, and P. jamesi having feathered chins. P. roseus, 

 recorded thrice from Britain and several times from North Germany, 

 while extending from Central Europe, the Canaries, and Cape Verds 

 to the whole of Africa, Lake Baikal, India, and Ceylon, has red 

 feet and a pink bill with black tip ; P. chilensis, of America south 



