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CHILE 
FL, 
“DsscRIPTION. 
FLAMINGO. 
Orver IX. WEB-FOOT ED. 
* Wito Lono Lees. 
Genus LXXXVII FLAMINGO: 
Pheenicopterus chilenfis, Jzd. Orz. ii. p. 789; 2.—Molin, Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 222: 
THE height from the point of the bill to the tips of the claws is: 
five feet; and the body itfelf'about one foot: the back and the: 
wings are of a fiery red colour, the reft: of the plumage of a beautiful: 
white: the head is very fmall, oblong, crowned with a fort of creft:: 
bill five inches long; it differs in many things from ‘the fpecies gene- 
rally known, but in none more than the quills, being in this-of a pure 
white, which in the common American and African fort are quite black: 
the young faid to differ from the adults,.in being of a grey colour. 
It is probably. one of the fineft birds in Chi; frequents only the 
frefh waters. The inhabitants fet great {tore by this bird, as it fur-- 
nifhes them with the beautiful feathers with which they adorn their 
helmets and fpears: the wings alfo are converted into fans, and ufed. 
for the fame purpofe. 
