PHCENICOPTERID. 395 
THE FLAMINGO. 
PHENICOPTERUS ROSEUS, Pallas. 
Early in September 1881 an adult Flamingo was seen for a week 
or so on the estate of the late Sir John H. Crewe, in the northern 
part of Staffordshire; but having crossed the river Manifold to 
another property, it was captured and taken to the owner of the 
land, by whom it was kept alive for a few days, and then killed. 
Another adult bird, recorded by Lord Henry Scott (Zool. 1884, 
P. 338), was shot on November 26th 1883, on the mud banks outside 
the Beaulieu river, Hampshire, which it had frequented for about a 
fortnight after a great gale from the south-west. Capt. G. E. Shelley 
has informed me that on August 12th 1884, when waiting near New 
Romney for the evening flights of Curlews, an adult Flamingo flew 
past him, having been put up by his two nephews, who got within 
