PHCENICOPTERID^. 331 



ANSERES. 



PH(ENICOPTERID^. 



382. PhoenicopteruS erythrseus, Verr. Greater South-African 

 Flamingo. 



Phcenicoptertis erythrceus, J. & E. Verreaux, in Eev. et Mag. de Zool. 

 1855, p. 221. 

 „ „ Andersson, in Ibis, 1865, p. 64. 



„ „ Layard's Cat. No. 644. 



„ „ Chapman's Travel's in S. Afr., App. p. 420. 



Flaminfjo, Baines's Explorations in South-west Africa, frontispiece. 

 Pli(Enicopterus erythrceus, Gray, in Ihis, 1869, pi. 14. fig. 5 (head). 

 ,, „ Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Airika's, 



p. 795. 



This Flamingo is very abundant at Walwich Bay, 

 Sandwich Harbour, Angra Pequena, and the mouth of 

 the Orange Eiver; it is also met with in a few inland 

 localities, such as Lake Ngami, Lake Onondava, &c., all 

 of which are more or less impregnated with saline sub- 

 stances, to which this species seems to be attached. 



With rare exceptions (and these not well authenticated, 

 but merely surmised from young birds being sometimes 

 found barely able to fly) the Flamingoes do not breed 

 in any of the parts of the coast above particularized ; 

 and, indeed, the only locality where I know for a cer- 

 tainty that they nest is the inland one of Lake Ngami. 



On the approach of the breeding-season they leave 

 the coast of Damara Land, and wing their way to the 

 northward ; they take their departure about the month 

 of February and return about the latter end of October 

 and during November, the old birds being the first to 

 arrive. 



