FLAMINGO. 43 



GENUS XCVII.— FLAMINGO. 



1 Red Flamingo || 2 Chili Flamingo 



.DILL thick, large, bending in the middle, forming a sharp angle; 

 the higher part of the upper mandible carinated ; the lower com- 

 pressed ; the edges of the upper sharply denticulated ; of the lower 

 transversely sulcated. 



Nostrils covered above with a thin plate, pervious, linearly lon- 

 gitudinal. 



Tongue cartilaginous, and pointed at the end ; in the middle 

 muscular; base glandular; on the upper part aculeated. 



Neck very long. 



Legs and thighs of a vast length. 



Feet webbed ; the webs extending as far as the claws, but deeply 

 semilunated. Back toe very small. 



1.— RED FLAMINGO.— Pl. clxviii. 



Phaenicopterus ruber, Ind. Orn. ii. 788. Lin. i. 230. Gm. Lin. i. 612. Scop. i. No. 



214. Bris. vi. 532. t. 47. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 502. Raii, 117. 2. Id. 190. 1. Will. 



240. t. 60. Sloan. Jam. 321. 17. Brown, Jam. 480. Seb. Mus. i. 123. t. 67. 



f. 1. Phil. Trails, xxix. t. 2. p. 523. Grew, Mus. p. 67. pl. 5.— the bill. Klein, 



126. B. Borowsk. iii. 66. t. 44. Spalowsk. i. t. 26. Mus. Lev. t. S. Gerin. v. 



t. 496. Bartr. Trav. 294. Gesn. Av. 623. pl. in 624. Amer. Orn. V. 8. p. 45. 



pl. 66. f. 4. Tern. Man. 378. Id. Ed. 2d. 587. Robert, Ic. pl. S. 

 Le Flammant, Buf. viii. 475. pl. 39. Pl.enl.63. Hist. Prov. i. 345. Voy. en Barb. 



i. 288. Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 366. Schmid, 132. t. 116. 

 El Flamenco, Paxaro de Agua, Gabin. de Madrid, i. p. 45. lam. 20. 

 Red Flamingo, Gen. Syn. v. 299. pl. 22. Id. Sup. 263. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 422. Cat. 



Car. i. pl. 73, 74. Alb. ii. 77. Kolb. Cap. ii. 137. Russ. Alep. 69. Gent. 3Iag. 



xx. pl. 264. Sparrm. Voy. i. p. 30. Dillon, Trav. 374. Penn. Hind. ii. 159. 



THIS singular bird is less than a Goose in the body, but the 

 neck and legs are in the greatest disproportion ; the length from bill 



G 2 



