RED FLAMINGO. 139 
Peale’s collection, there is one of this same 
have been brought from Neiv Holland, 
little in the niarhings of its plumage from our 
The red brou'n on the neck does not descend so 
(!(, ’ Scarcely occupying any of the hreast; it is also 
jteivhat less. 
every stuffed and dried specimen of these birds 
1 • ^ I'ave examined, the true form and tlexure of 
kh I “ altogether deranged, being naturally of a very 
''ev and delicate substance. 
genus LIX FIiaSNlCOPTERUS, Linnjjus, 
244 
*■*' I‘H(ENICOFTERUS HUBERy LINNiEDS BED FLAMINGO. 
PLATE LXVI. FIG. IV. — EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
T 
tile very singular species being occasionally seen on 
|)p .'^''uthern frontiers of the United States, and on the 
t^^^sula of East Florida, ivhero it is more common, 
alt] ^ ‘''aim to a niche in our Ornithological Museum, 
Vap.^'^tlli the author regrets, that, from personal obser- 
'‘■st***^’ nothing to the particulars of its 
'“"y detailed in various European 
Of Prom the most respectable of these, the Synopsis 
ap|| *" Latham, he has collected such particulars as 
<1 Si authentic and interesting, 
hj j uis I'emarkable bird has the neck and legs in a 
tfo^ disproportion than any other bird; the length 
®'*'' 
three inches ; but to the end of the claws, 
fo(,j, ’.*''68 sometimes more than six feet. The bill is 
”’6Les and a quarter long, and of a construction 
tv*' ’’"y ''"'d >■ tP® upper mandible 
'''iclc '** dat, and somewhat movable ; the under, 
*’'*'1(11 ’ *”***’ them bending downwards from the 
,® > the nostrils are linear, and placed in a blackish 
'^"ue ; the end of the bill, as far as the bend, is 
dto / ’ ^‘'um thence to the base, reddish yellow ; round 
tOii; ‘luite to the eye, cov'ered with a flesh coloured 
> the neck is slender, and of a great length ; the 
