BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



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FAMI LY 



PHCENICOPTERID^. 



Genus: PHCENICOPTERUS. Linn. 

 PH(ENICOPTERUS: LINNAEUS, vj.$.—SYST. NAT, I. p. 230,1766. 



PHCENICOPTERUS RUBER. Linn. 



Phcenicopterus rtiber. Linn., Syst. Nat., I. 10th eel. p. 139 (1758); 

 I. 12th ed., p. 230 (1766). — Wils., Am. Orn., VIII. p. 45, pi. 

 66 (1814). — Nutt., Man., II. p. 70 (1834).— Aud., Bds. Am., 

 VI. p. 169, pi. 375 (1843). — Salle (Sclater), P. Z. S., 1857, 

 p. 236. — Bd., CatrN. Am. Bds., No. 502 (1859). — Bryant, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, VII. p. 121 (1859); XI. p. 70 (1866).— 

 Coues, Key, 1872, p. 278. — Gundl., Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., 

 Tomo VII. p. 398 (1878). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I., p. 180 

 (1880). — Bd., Bwr. and Ridgw., Hist. N. Am. W. Bds., I. 

 p. 415 (1884). 



(?) Phoenicopterus glyphorhynchiis. "Gray, Ibis, 1869, pi. 14, fig. 5." 



Sp. Char., Male. — Entire plumage, scarlet ; most of primaries, 

 black; legs, lake red; terminal half of bill, black; basal half of 

 lower mandible, orange. Young males and females are paler. 



Length 52; wing 17; tail 6.50; tarsus 12.50; bill 5.25. 



One specimen was seen near Gonaives. It is known to the 

 natives at Gantier, who claim that it is sometimes seen at the lakes. 



