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does not support this supposition, although he aUucIes 

 to the capture of one straggler, about which, however, 

 the evidence does not appear very clear. From 

 Malta Mr. C. Augustus Wright writes, — "P. roseus. 

 — Very common on the inland lakes and lagoons 

 all along the coast of Barbary; is only a chance visitor 

 to this island, doubtless from the want of extensive 

 sheets of shallow brackish water, in which it delights. 

 It is not, however, unfrequently met with crossing the 

 Mediterranean, although it is not annually seen in 

 Malta. Perhaps it has oftener been observed here in 

 June than at any other time of the year. The last 

 one I know of was taken in May, 1860." 



On the Asiatic coasts the E-osy Flamingo is very 

 abundant, more particulary in the vast and impenetrable 

 marshes on the eastern shores of the Caspian Sea, in 

 Persia and Arabia. Dr. Leith Adams writes to me, 

 "It is not uncommon on the great rivers or the inland 

 lakes of Hindostan. There is a small and large variety 

 evidently distinct races, inasmuch as they are found in 

 separate flocks; the difference in the length of the legs 

 of the two is never under four inches. The smaller is 

 the least common." 



In Africa, Mr. Tristram informs us that it has an 

 aversion to marshes or lakes which are partially sur- 

 rounded by trees. He observed a large flock feeding 

 on the open chott of Waregla. Captain Loche includes 

 it in his Catalogue of Algerian Birds ; and Mr. O. 

 Salvin, in his interesting paper in the ''Ibis," vol. i, 

 p. 361, entitled "Five Months' Bird-nesting in the Eastern 

 Atlas," has the following note about the Rosy Flamingo: 

 — "It seems to be an almost universal rule throughout 

 the world, that where there are salt lakes there 

 Flamingos are found. It certainly is the case in Tunis 



