N* Red Flamingo.
TH E bill in this genus is thick, large, bending in the middle,
forming a lharp angle; the higher part of the upper
mandible carinated.; the lower comprefled ; . the edges of the
upper mandible lharply denticulated; of the lower, tranfverfely
fulcated.
Noftrils covered above with a thin plate, pervious, linearly
longitudinal.
Tongue cartilaginous, and pointed at the end; the middle
mufcular; bafe glandular; on the upper part aculeated.
Neck very long,' j , |
Legs and thighs, of a great length.
Feet webbed; the webs extend as far as the claws, but are
deeply femilunated.
Back toe very fmall.
l’ha-.nicopterus ruber, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 23°- Scop. Ann. i. N° 114.
Le Flammant, BriJ Orn. vi. p. 533. pi* 47- 6S- e.— Buf. Oif. viii. p. 47;.
pi. 39.— PI. F.nl. 63.
Phsenicopterus, Flammant, Rail Syn. p. 117. z.— Will. Orn. p. 320. pi. 60.
— Ara. Zool. N° 42 z.
Flamingo, Rate Sjw. p. »90, 1.— Sloan. Jam. p. 32t. 17.— Cattfi. Car. 1.
pi. 73. 74.—Albin, ii. pi. 77.— Kolb. Cap. ii. p. 137.— Phil. Tran/.
vol. xxlx. N° 3jo. 'pi. '2. p. 523- — Grew Mu/, p. 67. — Brown
Jam. p. 480. '
Br. Muß Lev. .Mu/.
rpHI s Angular bird is fcarce fo big as a Goofey but has the
neck and legs in a greater difproportion to the body than any
Q_q 2 other
+■ RED FL.
Pl. xciir.
D escrip tion,