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Genus LXXXII. FLAMINGO. 



N° i. Red Flamingo. 



THE bill in this genus is thick, large, bending in the mid- 

 dle, forming a fliarp angle ; the higher part of the upper 

 mandible carinated ; the lower compreiTed ; the edges of the 

 upper mandible fharply denticulated ; of the lower, tranfverfeiy 

 fulcated. 



Noftrils covered above with a thin plate, pervious, linearly- 

 longitudinal. 



Tongue cartilaginous, and pointed at the end; the middle 

 mufcular; bafe glandular; on the upper part aculeatech 

 Neck very long. 



Legs and thighs of a great length. 



Feet webbed ; the webs extend as far as the claws, but are 

 deeply femilunated. 

 Back toe very fmall. 



Phsenicopterus ruber, Lin. Syft. i. p. 230. — Stop. Ann. i. N° 114. 



Le Flammant, Brif Orn. vi. p. 533. pi. 47. fig. l.—Buf. Oif. viii. p. 475. 4. r^gQ p^ 



pi. 39.-W, Enl. 63. pL> X(; ' 



Phxnicopterus, Flammant, Raii Syn. p. 117. 2. — Will. Orn. p. 320. pi. 6o« 



— Am. Zool. N° 422. 

 Flamingo, Raii Syn. p. 190. 1. — Sloan. Jam. p. 321. 17. — Cateji. Car. 1. 



pi. 73. 74. — Albin, ii. pi. 77. — Kolb. Cap. ii. p. 137. — Phil. Tranf. 



vol. xxix. N° 350. pi. 2. p. 523. — Grevj Muf. p. 67. — Brown 



Jam. p. 480. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



'IP HI S lingular bird is fcarce fo big as a Goofe ; but has the Description 

 neck and legs in a greater difproportion to the body than any 



Q^q 2 other 



