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RED FLAMINGO. 
are furnished with webs, these birds, from tlie length 
of their legs, are incapable of swimming : the prin- 
cipal use of these membranes appears to be that of 
supporting the birds on the muddy shores, where 
they reside and obtain their subsistence. 
RED FLAMINGO. 
f - (Phcenicopterus ruber.) 
Ph. ruber, remigibns nigris. 
Red Flamiugo with the quills black. 
Phcenicopterus ruber. Linn. Si/it. Nat. 1. 230. Gmcl. Sijst. 
Nat. ]. 612. Raii, Syn. 117. 2.— 190. 1. Driss. Orn. 6. .537. 
pi. 47./. 1. Lath. Ltd. Orn. ii. 788. 
Le Flammant. Biiff". Ols. 8. 475. Buff. PL Enl. G3. Ciiv. 
Reg. Anim. I. 505. 
Le Flammant rouge. Temm. man. d'Orn. 378. Id. 2 Edit. ii. 
587. 
Red Flamingo. Pcnn. Arct. Zool. 2. No. 422. Catcsbtj, Carol. 
].pl. 73, 74. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 299. 93. Lath. Syn. 
Sup. 263. JVils. Anier. Orn. viii. /;. 45.;;/. Iw i.f. 4. 
The body of this very extraordinary bird is scarcely 
larger than that of a Goose; nevertheless, its legs 
and neck are of such disproportionate length, that 
the bird measures from the point of the beak to the 
tip of the claws, no less than six feet, and to the tip 
of the tail four feet and upwards. Its curiously con- 
structed beak is four inches and a quarter long, with 
its base and the cere whitish-yellow ; from thence to 
its curvature of a blood-red, and its tip black : its 
