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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



but this specimen wiis the only one obtained on Tiger I:»land 

 in the JEtn swamp.'' 



Mr. Beebe (Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 381) gives the 

 following note : — " F.iintly from behind tlie liouse, from the edge 

 of the distant eta bush itself, comes in tlie evenings a low sound, 

 gaining in volume until the syllables may be framed to human 

 speech — l\[o-h6o-ca I Mo-hoo-ca I and we are listening to the 

 evenintr call of the Horned Screamer, a bird known to us onlv 

 from books."' 



Order PHCENICOPTEHIFORMES. 



Family PHCENICOPTERIDJi:. 



The members that compose this family are easily distinguished 

 by their small heads, long thin necks, small bodies, and very 

 long legs with webbed toes. They are distributed in Europe, 

 Africa, Asia, Florida, and the Gulf States of North America, 

 Central and South America to the Galapagos Islands. 



Fig. 47. — To illu^^trate the iieculiar shape of the bill. 



Genus PH(ENICOPTERUS Linn. 



Fncenicoptenis Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed i. p. 139, 175S. Tj'pe 

 P. ruber Linn. 



The chief characters of this genus are the very peculiar shaped 

 bill and the naked throat. 



