
: ‘TAS 
NATURAL HISTORY 
OF 
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ORDER IW. GRattm 
Birds of this order have the beak a little cylindric, oes | 
1s, long and round,) rather blunt, and bare of feathers at 
the bafe. 
_ The tongue is intire, and hethysy told at ahs end, and 
befe with briftles. 
. The legs are without feathers above the Knees. 
Ginus ro PHOENICOPTERUS, : 
THE FLAMINGO, 
athe bill. is ak large, bending i in the middle, as ‘ous 
i uiohen ; the edges of the upper mandible are ferrated (or 
nl toothed like a faw.) 
: a The noftrils are very narrew. | ose Ee: 
"The feet webbed, toes four, - the webs are indented like | 
8 ones moon, and the back toe is {mall, 
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(HE legs of the Flamingo are extremely _ 
long; its neck is of a great length, and 
ae flender. Its body being raifed fo high, 
and at the fame time no larger than the body of a : 
: Boole a oe ftrangely out of proportion. 
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