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gave a resume on exhibiting some of the eggs at a meeting of the Zoological Society ; but a 

 well-known ornithologist pooh-poohed the idea of such a position, preferring the notion of the 

 bird's sitting with its legs doubled underneath it — because, forsooth, to his mind, the latter 

 position would be more comfortable. Eggs taken in 1865, which I obtained through the kind- 

 ness of some Spanish friends, are larger than, but otherwise similar to, those of a Gannet (but on 

 scraping away the chalky surface, the shell is greenish), and in shape more pointed at one end. 



" An excellent observer at Malaga assured me that, amongst the many Flamingoes he had 

 seen from the salt lake of Fuentepiedra, much frequented by those birds, but where they do not 

 breed, he had occasionally observed a small one red all over; and on sending me the skin of a 

 very rosy one, he observed, ' This bird is smallish and very rosy, but it is not the small species of 

 which I spoke to you, that being far more orange-red (rojo anaranjado), whereas this is pink.' 

 I therefore fully expect to be able to exhibit some day a skin of Phoenicopterus erythrceus, the 

 statement respecting this smaller ruddy Flamingo having been fully confirmed on my visits to the 

 lake in question by a native hunter of its vicinity. 



"Last year (1870) I again visited Spain, with the express object of trying some other 

 localities where it was possible this bird might breed, having given instructions to my corre- 

 spondents in the south to telegraph the moment they found a nest in their part of the country. 

 I visited the unwholesome delta of the Ebro, nothing there ; then to Majorca, nothing there 

 either ; but on my return I was assured that this bird sometimes nested in the island of Iviza. 

 I sent a man down to some of the lakes in La Mancha with no better result, whilst I myself set 

 out to explore the lake of Gallocanta, in Aragon, a very awkward place to get at. Arrived 

 there, I could find no signs of a Flamingo, and all the herdsmen and inhabitants of that dreary 

 basin agreed that the ' Gorrones,' as they called them, though abundant in winter, never had 

 nested there. I could put my finger on half a dozen places in the south where they really have 

 nested ; but until we have had several ' anos de agua.,' I fear all further search is useless. This 

 year, too (1871), I have no news." Lord Lilford writes to me as follows: — "I have been in 

 Iviza this spring, and was assured that the Flamingo, though it visits that island, and Formentera 

 in winter, sometimes in great numbers, has never been known to breed there." 



According to Colonel Irby (Orn. Str. Gibr. p. 193), "Flights of Flamingoes are frequently 

 seen passing near Gibraltar as early as the 4th of February and as late as the 1st of May ; and 

 they again appear in September, when immature birds are met with. I have seen flocks of 

 thousands in the Marisma near the Isla Menor, and, by the aid of a stalking-horse, managed to 

 shoot five at a shot. Usually they are extremely wild and shy, except during actual passage, 

 when they alight to rest at the mouths of rivers. The note is not unlike that of the Grey-Lag 

 Goose (Anser cinereus) ; and more than once at night I have mistaken the sound for that of 

 these Geese." 



According to Mr. A. von Homeyer the Flamingo is a winter visitant to the Balearic Islands, 

 and he was informed that it breeds there. He once observed a pair at the Albufera, but could 

 not ascertain if they were nesting there. Occasionally the Flamingo straggles into Savoy ; and 

 Bailly says that he obtained an adult example near Yenne, on the banks of the Rhone. In Italy 

 it has been known to straggle as far as Piedmont ; and several have been killed in Lombardy, 

 Venice, and the provinces to the southward ; but in Sardinia it is numerous. Salvadori writes 



