ROSEATE SPOONBILL. 1 3 1 
color, 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 brown- 
ish orange, the shafts reddish ; legs and naked part of the thighs 
dark dirty red ; feet half-webbed ; toes very long, particularly the 
hind one. The upper part of the neck had the plumage partly 
worn away, as if occasioned by resting it on the back, in the man- 
ner of the Ibis. The skin on the crown is a little wrinkled ; the 
inside of the wing a much richer red than the outer. 
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