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p. 92; Murray, ibid, p. 112 ; Vidal, ibid, IX, p. 91 ; Butler, ibid, 

 p. 436 ; Legge's " B, of Ceylon," p. 1092 ; Keid, " Str. Feath.," X 

 p. 78 ; Davidson, ibid, p. 325 ; Hume, ibid, p. 513. 



Phoenicopterus antiquorum.^-E.ume, " Str. Feath.," VII, p. 491 ; 

 Barnes' " B. of Bombay," p. 392. 



Phoenicopterus andersoni.—Knme, " Str. Feath.," Ill, p. 414. 



Description : Adult male. — Whole plumage, with the exceptions 

 noted, a beautiful rosy- white; the rose colour much more developed on 

 the tail and rather more on the head and neck. Primary coverts 

 nearly or quite white, other wing coverts and innermost secondaries 

 light rose-red. Primaries and outer secondaries black ; underwing 

 coverts and axillaries scarlet ; under median and primary coverts 

 black. 



Orbital skin, fleshy-pink to bright rose-red ; irides lemon-yellow, 

 pale yellow, or pale golden-yellow, (Jerdon) ; bill bright flesh- 

 colour ; edge of mandible and terminal portion of bill black ; legs and 

 feet pinkish-red ; claws black. 



Length varies from 44" to 53", wing 15*5" to 17*5", tail 6" to 7'5"; 

 tarsus about 13", bare part of the tibia 9"; culmen 5'5" to 6'4 ;/ , 

 depth (of bill) at centre 1*5" (Legge's B. of Ceylon). 



Female. — Similar to the male ; the rose colour on head, neck, and 

 back often less pronounced, but not always so. Length from 38" to 

 48"; wing 14-3" to 15"8"; tail 5 '5" to 6-8"; tarsus about 10'5" to 

 11-5" ; bare tibia about 7"; culmen 4'75" to 5*6". 



Young. — Head, neck, and lower plumage white, more or less tinged 

 with rosy-buff ; back and wing coverts ashy-buff with dark shaft 

 stripes ; the greater coverts more brown, but with pale tips soon 

 wearing off ; underwing coverts and axillaries pale pink. Bill more 

 dull than in the adult ; legs dark plumbeous. 



Nestling. — White down, more or less tinged with grey, especially 

 on the upper parts ; down in texture like that on a young swan 

 (Dresser). In the nestling the bill is perfectly straight, but soon, 

 assumes the normal shape. 



Habitat. — Southern Europe, practically confined to the Coast line, 

 Asia on the East and South-East, and the whole of Africa, 



In India it is found more or less throughout the Continent, but I 

 can find no record of its having ever extended to Burma, and in 



