EED FLAMINGO. 
139 
In Mr Peale’s collection, there is one of this same 
species, said to have been brought from New Holland, 
differing little in the markings of its plumage from our 
Own. The red brown on the neck does not descend so 
far, scarcely occupying any of the breast ; it is also 
somewhat less. 
In every stuffed and dried specimen of these birds 
which I have examined, the true form and flexure of 
the bill is altogether deranged, being naturally of a very 
tender and delicate substance. 
GENUS LIX. — PHCENICOPTERUS, Linnaeus. 
244 . PH(ENICOPTERUS BUBER, LINNJEUS. RED FLAMINGO. 
WILSON, PLATE LXVI. FIG. IV. —EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
This very singular species being occasionally seen on 
the southern frontiers of the United States, and on the 
peninsula of East Florida, where it is more common, 
has a claim to a niche in our Ornithological Museum, 
although the author regrets, that, from personal obser- 
vation, he can add nothing to the particulars of its 
history, already fully detailed in various European 
works. From the most respectable of these, the Synopsis 
of Dr Latham, he has collected such particulars as 
appear authentic and interesting. 
“ This remarkable bird has the neck and legs in a 
greater disproportion than any other bird ; the length 
from the end of the bill to that of the tail, is four feet 
two or three inches ; hut to the end of the claws, 
measures sometimes more than six feet. The bill is 
four inches and a quarter long, and of a construction 
different from that of any other bird ; the upper mandible 
very thin and flat, and somewhat movable ; the under, 
thick ; both of them bending downwards from the 
middle ; the nostrils are linear, and placed in a blackish 
membrane ; the end of the bill, as far as the bend, is 
black ; from thence to the base, reddish yellow ; round 
the base, quite to the eye, covered with a flesh coloured 
cere ; the neck is slender, and of a great length ; the 
