THE FLAMINGO, 147 



which the annexed figure will explain better than 

 any verbal description. With this misshapen 

 instrument, it would appear, that the act of collect- 

 ing food must be an affair of some difficulty 



an opinion rather confirmed by the still more extra- 

 ordinary manner in which it feeds. On lookino- a t 

 the plate, it will be seen that, owing to the sudden 

 curvature, or almost broken and deformed appear- 

 ance of the beak, food, collected in the usual way, 



Th& Flamingo. 



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