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IRE 113 IS. 



ELEVENTH SERIES. 



Vol. II. No. 1. JANUARY 1920. 



I. — Further Ornithological Notes from the Neighbour - 

 hood of Cape San Antonio, Province of Buenos Ayres. 

 Part III. Phq;nicopterid^ — RHEiDiE. By Ernest 

 Gibson, M.B.O.U., F.Z.S.* 



333. Phcenicopterus ignipalliatus Geofir. et d'Orb. Argen- 

 tine Flamingo. 



Supplementing my former meagre notes on the Argei-tine 

 Flamingo, I can only confirm the fact that the bird is 

 resident in our district, and stationary, so far as I can judge. 

 For the probable reason of this, Hudson^s suggestion may 

 be accepted, namely, the milder climatic conditions of a 

 region bordering on the sea- coast. Be that as it may, I 

 find this species as frequently noted in my diary during the 

 winter season as the summer, and vice versa, whilst young 

 birds in the grey plumage are equally general. Our salt 

 water or brackish lagunas of the Palenque, Milan, Pasaje, 

 etc., are its usual haunts ; and I have actually ridden past 

 (at a distance of twenty yards) three young Flamingos which 

 were feeding in a wide cangrejal in an open part of the town 

 of Ajo. Occasionally, but very rarely, I have seen from 

 one to three or five birds at some freshwater laguna or pond 

 of our inland marshes ; but these are most exceptional cases. 

 Though they are never persecuted here, I have found flocks 

 on the whole to be very wary, remaining well out of 

 gun-shot. 



* Coucluded from ' Ibis,' 1919, p. 537. 



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