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THE FLAMINGO. 
bill, which the annexed figure will explain better 
than any verbal description. With this misshapen 
instrument, it would appear, that the act of collect- 
ing food must be an affair of some difficulty, — 
an opinion rather confirmed by the still more extra- 
ordinary manner in which it feeds. On looking at 
the plate, it will be seen that, owing to the sudden 
curvature, or almost broken and deformed appear- 
ance of the beak ; food, collected in the usual way, 
THE FLAMINGO. 
