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’Birds of this order have the beak a little cylindric, (that 
is, long and round,) rather blunt, and bare of feathers at 
the bafe. 
The tongue is intire, and flefhy; pointed at the < and 
befet with briftles. 
The legs are without feathers above the knees, © 
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Tur FLAMINGO. 
The bill is thick, large, bending in the middle, as though 
broken ; the edges of the upper mandible are ferrated (or 
toothed like a faw.) 
The noftrils are very narrow. 
The feet webbed, toes four, the webs are indented Tike 
_a half moon, ‘and the back toe is fmall. 
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HE legs of the Flamingo are extremely 
long ; its neck is of a great length, and 
flender. Its body being raifed fo high, 
and at the fame time no larger than the body of a’ > 
goole, appears ftrangely out of proportion. ° 
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