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pink or dirty white ; back and upper tail-coverts whitish, faintly 

 washed with pink, and with a dusky blotch or stripe along the 

 shaft of each feather. Tail faint roseate white, with the outer 

 veins of the feathers broadly edged with greyish brown, the 

 very outermost edge being sometimes flushed with a pale pink. 

 Throughout almost the entire plumage, the shafts of the feathers 

 are more or less dusky, occasionally running into blotches and 

 patches of a dirty whitish brown. 



As the bird approaches its adult stage, the bill becomes more 

 elongated, and only the extremities of the mandibles remain 

 black, the central and basal portions of the bill becoming bluish ; 

 the grey colour of the plumage nearly disappears, except about 

 the wings, and in its place white predominates, the head, neck, 

 and throat only remaining a little dusky ; the pinkish scarlet 

 under the wings brightens, and large irregular markings of a 

 similar colour appear on the outside of the wings also. 



In the adult bird the whole of the bill is pink, except the tips 

 of the mandibles, which remain black. The wings, under wing- 

 coverts, and tertials ai-e scarlet (the spurious wings and tertials 

 being palest) ; the secondary quills are glossy black ; the prima- 

 ries are so on the outer edges only, the other parts of those 

 feathers being of a sooty brown ; the primaries have also on the 

 inside a longitudinal dark-brown stripe on either side of the 

 shaft. The head, neck, shoulders, scapulars, breast, belly, and 

 under tail-coverts white, very faintly flushed with scarlet; the 

 back, upper tail-coverts, and upper surface of tail white, beauti- 

 fully and harmoniously tinted with scarlet-pink. Legs and toes 

 scarlet-pink ; nails brownish black, shading off into light horn- 

 colour on the edges. 



2. Phoenicopterus minor, Geoff. St. Hilaire. ' 



Phomicopterus parvus, Vieillot. 



This Flamingo is of rare occurrence here ; at least, I have met 

 with it very sparingly. 



In the adult bird the form of the bill is precisely that of the 

 newly fledged young of the preceding species ; its colour is as 

 follows: — the basal part is of a dull brownish purple, the 

 parts adjoining being vermilion, which deepens into crimson-red 



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