ROSEATE SPOONBILL. 
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white, slightly tinged with brownish; wings a pale wild-rose 
colour, the shafts lake; the shoulders of the wings are covered 
with long hairy plumage of a deep and splendid carmine; upper 
and lower tail coverts the same rich red; belly rosy; rump paler; 
tail equal at the end, consisting of twelve feathers, of a bright 
brownish orange, the shafts reddish; legs, and naked part of the 
thighs, dark dirty red; feet half webbed; toes very long, parti- 
cularly the hind one. The upper part of the neck had the plu- 
mage partly worn away, as if occasioned by resting it on the 
back, in the manner of the Ibis. The skin on the crown is a 
little wrinkled; the inside of the wing a much richer red than 
the outer. 
