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THE FLAMINGO. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill thick, large, bending in the middle as if broken, edges of the upper 



mandible toothed, of the lower tranfverfely fukated. 

 Nostrils linear. 

 F£ET palmated, four-toed. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Crimfon Flamingo with the long wing- feathers black. 



Flamingo 



Rati Synops. p. 190. i. 

 Sloan, Jam. p. 321. 17. 

 Catejb. Carol, i. pi. 73. 74. 

 Lath. Synops. 3. p. 299. 



IF ever Nature may be faid to have violated the general rules of pro- 

 portion by which moft animals are fo gracefully diftinguifhed, it muft be 

 in the Flamingo j the neck and legs of which are fo enormoufly and even 

 awkwardly long, that they feem to fubjedl the bird to fome inconvenience 

 and conftraint in its manner of walking and fitting. To add to thefe ap- 

 parent difadvantages the beak is fo conftrudted as to appear as if bent or 

 broken by fome accidental violence j the mandibles curving fuddenly downwards 

 from the middle. From this circumftance, the bird when feeding, is obliged 



to 



