FLAMINGO. 
Phcenicopterus ruber. 
Char. General color bright pink, deepest on breast and wings; pri- 
mary and secondary feathers of wings black; base of bill yellow, terminal 
half black. I.egs red. The young are paler, the pink tints deepening 
with age Length about 4 feet. Stature nearly 5 feet. 
Nest. Usually in a colony, situated on the shore of a shallow lagoon 
or pond, or on a mud island, — a saucer-like depression in the mud, with a 
rim or bulwark 3 to 6 inches in height. Sometimes a cone-shaped mound 
of mud is built up from the bottom of the lagoon and raised 8 to to inches 
or higher above the water level. 
Eggs. 2 ; white, much elongated, and with a rough plaster-like surface; 
3.60 X a.20. 
