AVES PHCENICOPTERID/E. 403 



common summer resident from Brazil almost or quite to Patagonia. In- 

 deed it may remain the whole year round in the marshes of the Pampas, 

 for while I met with it only in the summer at Concepcion I several times 

 saw it at Carhue in April, long after winter had fairly set in. It is 

 rarely seen, even where most abundant, and it is almost impossible to get 

 a Second sight of one that has been once started from the reeds. I did 

 not succeed in finding its nest" (Barrows, Auk, i, 1884, p. 271.) 



Order PHCENICOPTERIFORMES. 



Sharpe, Classif. Bds. p. 76, 1891 ; Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. I. p. 205, 1899. 



Family PHCENICOPTERID^G. 



Salvadori, Cat Bds. Brit. Mus. XXVII. p. 8, 1895 ; Sharpe, Hand-List 

 Bds. I. p. 205, 1899. 



Genus PHGENICOPTERUS Linnaeus. 



Type. 



Phanicopterus, Linn. Syst Nat. I. p. 230 (1766); Salvadori, 

 Cat Bds. Brit Mus. XXVII. p. 9. (1895); Sharpe, Hand- 

 List Bds. I. p. 205 (1899) P. ruber. 



Phcenicorodias (subgenus), G. R. Gray, Ibis, 1869, p. 441 . P. ruber. 



Geographical Range. Southern North America, nearly all of South 



America. Southern Europe to Central Asia ; Africa, India and Ceylon. 



PHCENICOPTERUS CHILENSIS Molina. 



Flamant d'AmeYique, D'Aubent PI. Enl. pi. 63 (1770). 



Phanicoptents chifensis, Mol. Hist. Nat Chile, p. 214 (1776); id. Saggio 

 St Nat Chile 2nd ed. p. 203 (1810) ; Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, P- !I 7 

 (S. Chili); Gray, List B. Brit Mus. Part III. p. 125 (1844); Schl. 

 Mus. Pays-Bas. VI. Anseres, p. 117 (1866: Chili); Salvad. Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. XXVIII. p. 16 (1895); Sharpe, Hand-list B. I. p. 205 

 (1899) ; Martens, Hamb. Magalh. Sammelr. Vog. p. 24 (1900 : South 

 Patagonia). 



Chili Flamingo, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. II. p. 330 (1801). 



Flamenco, Azara, Apunt III. p. 133 (1805). 



