42 ROSY FLAMINGO. 



On July 2nd. there is the following note : — " Malaguens came in 

 with three young Flamingos, which he had shot in the first river. 

 They must have come over from Seville, where they breed. I do 

 not think they can have been bred in this neighbourhood, though 

 it is quite possible. They were cleanly shot, and I preserved two 

 of the skins. The plumage is very unlike that of the adult birds 

 — the rosy tint only shewing itself on the upper wing coverts very 

 faintly — the under wing coverts pale rose-colour; head, neck, back, 

 and scapularies more or less dusky; the feathers of the latter, with 

 dusky shafts; breast dasky white; upper and under tail coverts white; 

 wing coverts mottled with brown and brownish black; primaries 

 brownish black; secondaries and tertiaries the same, but edged on 

 the inner web with white, the white increasing towards the body; 

 beak bluish purple, pinkish at the base of the upper mandible; 

 legs and toes dull bluish purple. An adult male in my collection, 

 sent to me from Gibraltar by Mr. Keid, has wing primaries and 

 secondaries black, and the upper and lower wing coverts and some 

 feathers on the flanks a bright rosy red. All the rest of the body a 

 pure white, with a rosy tinge. The legs are yellow, — the beak having 

 the distal third at tip black, the rest bluish grey." 



Female rather less than the male, and of a lighter rosy colour 

 than the male, but the wings of the same colour. 



The young, after the first moult, are of an ashy grey, with black 

 spots on the secondary quills; beak greyish, with the point brown; 

 legs livid; iris bright yellow. As they grow older the colours 

 become deeper; and at 'T age moyen" they are of a light rose like 

 the female; but the red on the wings is less lively, the beak, except 

 at the point, and the legs are of a livid russet. 



My figure is taken from a specimen in my collection, killed at 

 the mouth of the Guadaranque, near Gibraltar, and sent to me by 

 Mr. Reid. 



It has been figured by almost all writers on European ornithology. 



The West African Flamingo, Pheenicopterus erythrceus, Verreaux. 

 — In his "Fauna d'ltalia" Dr. Salvadori writes: — "This species is 

 found in Sardinia, together with P. roseus, and is not less common. 

 I have seen various examples in the Museum of Cagliari, and one 

 in very beautiful plumage in the laboratory of the same museum. 

 Various ornithologists, among whom are Bonaparte and Blasius, have 

 included this species among the birds of south Europe; and I believe 

 tliat to this species should be referred the specimens which I found 



