FLAMINGO. 



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quired for the nesting site. Nests have been known throughout the 

 Bahamas from Great Abaco (Allen), on the north to Great Inagua 

 (Bryant), on the south, and as late as 1905 the birds were still nest- 

 ing in considerable numbers on Andros Island (Riley) . Large breed- 

 ing colonies have existed in the vicinity of Cienfuegos, Cuba, and this 

 port has been for many years one of the principal places of shipment 

 for live flamingos. The flamingo is also known to have nested on the 

 Isle of Pines (Gundlach) ; Eio Lagartos, Yucatan (Boucard) ; Bon- 

 aire Island, off the coast of Venezuela (Hartert) ; near the mouth 

 of Waini Creek on the coast of British Guiana (Lloyd) ; on the 

 coast of French Guiana near Cayenne (Waterton) ; and south to 



Fig. 1. — Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber). 



the vicinity of the mouth of the Amazon River at Praia de Cajutuba, 

 Brazil (Pelzeln), and to the Galapagos Islands (Beck). 



Eggs have been found in the Bahamas, May 14, 1884 (Maynard) ; 

 June 7, 1886 (Blake) ; and May 8, 1904 (Chapman) ; young out of 

 the nest in the Bahamas, May 28, 1898 (Chapman) ; young on the 

 Galapagos, April 1, 1902 (Beck). 



Migration range. — Outside of the breeding season the flamingo 

 used to be not uncommon on the west coast of Florida north to Tampa 

 Bay (Scott), and a few probably still visit Florida, for they were 

 noted at Upper Matecumbe Key, March 7, 1906 (Brodhead), and 

 Lake Worth, May, 1905 (Ryman), but none probably winter any- 

 where in Florida. The flamingo has been noted also at Warrington, 

 Fla. (Stone) ; Charleston, S. C. (Audubon) ; Georgetown, S. C, Sep- 

 tember, 1876 (Loomis) ; and at Cameron, La., December 6, 1910 



