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rest of its extent; its angle rather long, wide, and filled 
with bare skin ; its dorsal line concave, but at the tip con- 
vex, the ridge deeply depressed, there being a wide channel 
in its place, the sides nearly erect and a little convex, with 
six ridges on each side toward the tip. Both mandibles in- 
ternally lamellate, the edge of the lower much incurved. 
Nostrils linear, direct, and subbasal, operculatc. Head 
small, ovate ; neck extremely elongated, and ver;^ slender ; 
body slender ; legs extremely long ; tibia bare for more 
than half its length, and with the long tarsus anteriorly 
scutellate ; hind toe very small and elevated ; anterior toes 
connected by emarginate webs, scutellate above, tesselate 
beneath. Claws oblong, obtuse, depressed. Space between 
the bill and the eye bare ; plumage compact ; wings long, 
very broad, pointed ; second quill longest ; some of the se- 
condaries extremely elongated, so as to extend far beyond 
the primaries when the wing is closed. Tail very short. 
Tongue confined by the lower mandible, fleshy, compressed, 
decurved, with recurved conical papillae; oesophagus ex- 
tremely narrow, but at the lower part of the neck enlarged 
into a crop ; proventriculus elliptical ; stomach a very mus- 
cular, transversely elliptical gizzard, exactly resembling that 
of a goose or duck, with the epithelium dense, and longitu- 
dinally sulcate ; intestine very long, and of considerable 
width ; coeca rather long ; cloaca globular. 
377. 1. Phoenicopterus ruber, Linn. American Flamingo. 
Plate CCCCXXXL Male. 
Bill yellow tinged with bright orange, at the end black ; feet lake ; 
plumage scarlet, excepting the ten primaries, and twenty of the secon- 
daries, which are black. 
Male, 45L 66. 
Rather rare, and only during summer in the Florida Keys, and the 
western coast of Florida. Accidental as far as South Carolina. Con- 
stantly resident in Cuba. 
Red Flamingo, Phoenicopterus ruber, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 145. 
Phoenicopterus ruber. Bo nap. Syn. p. 348. 
American or Red Flamingo, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 71. 
American Flamingo, Phoenicopterus ruber, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 255. 
