150 THE FLAMINGO. 



soldier-like appearance, in addition to further mili- 

 tary habits they seem very generally to adopt, Not 

 only do they always assemble in flocks, but they 

 form, in long lines of regular rank and file, as well 

 for the purpose of fishing, as when they repose on 

 the strand. Still further, after the manner of expe- 

 rienced soldiers, they post sentinels, who keep a 

 good look-out, and if anything suspicious attracts 

 their no-tice, immediately send forth a ciy like the 

 sound of a, trumpet, when the whole corps moves 

 off in regular marching order. 



In the river Inhambau, on the eastern coast of 

 Africa, the officers of Captain Owen's: surveying 

 ships found them so numerous that every shoal 

 was covered with them, " looking," to use their 

 words, " at a distance, like large variegated plains, 

 and, upon a nearer approach, resembling files of 

 soldiers. When the sun was shining upon them, 

 nothing could surpass the beauty of their brilliant 

 and dazzling appearance/' 



TABLE XXV. (See vol. i., p. 22.) 



Order 5. WADERS. Tribe 4. TENUIROSTRES*, or 

 Slender -bi lied. 



BY some naturalists, the birds of this Table have 

 been classed amongst the long-billed birds (ILongi- 



* As there is a division of Tenuirostral birds in the Passe- 

 rine Order, this tribe, to avoid confusion, is often designated 

 as Longirostral ; most of the birds composing it having long 

 bills. We have adhered, however, to DuJfteril's title. 



