FLAMINGO.
PHCENICOPTERUS ROSEUS, Pall.
Phcenicopterus roseus, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiatica, ii.
p. 207; Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 244; Dresser, vi. p. 343.
Flammant, French; Flamenco, Spanish; Rosenfarbiger,
Flaming, German; Fenicottero, Italian.
Four occurrences of the Flamingo in England are
recorded by Mr. Saunders in the fourth volume of
Yarrell’s ‘ British Birds,’ with the particulars concerning
them.
The bird is common in the delta of the Rhone and
in parts of Spain, and thence spreads eastwards and
southwards from the basin of the Mediterranean to
Lake Baikal, and over the whole of Africa, India, and
Ceylon.
Lord Lilford’s account of the breeding of the
Flamingo in the great alluvial plains of the Guadalquivir
in Southern Spain, called the “ Marisma,” will
be found in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society
of London’ for 1880, page 446. [0. S.]
FLAMINGO.
