(ANDEAN FLAMINGO.)
+Phoenicopterus andinus+, _Phillipi, Reise d. d. Wüste Atacama_, p.
164, tt. iv., v.; _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 127; _Scl. P. Z.
S._ 1886, p. 399; _Burm. P. Z. S._ 1872, p. 364 (Cordilleras of
N.-West).
_Description._--Hind toe absent. Plumage rosy white; lower neck and
breast carmine; wings scarlet, with the tips of the quills black;
bill at the base yellowish stained with red; apical half black; feet
yellow: whole length 35·0 inches, wing 16·0, tarsus 9·0. _Female_
similar, but smaller.
_Hab._ Andes of Bolivia and Northern Chili.
The Andean Flamingo, which is at once distinguishable from _P.
ignipalliatus_ by the complete absence of the hind toe, is stated by Dr.
Burmeister, on the authority of Herr Schickendantz, to be found on the
north-western frontiers of the Argentine Republic, on the lagunes of the
eastern valleys between the Cordilleras and the adjacent mountains.
Order X. ANSERES.
Fam. XXXIX. PALAMEDEIDÆ, or SCREAMERS.
This singular Neotropical form is even more isolated than the Flamingo
and more difficult to place satisfactorily in a linear series. It
seems, however, that it is best arranged near the Anatidæ, as first
suggested by Mr. Parker[7], and that it may with least inconvenience
be constituted an aberrant family of the Order Anseres.
[7] _Cf._ Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 511.
Besides the typical form _Palamedea_ (with one species found in Amazonia
and the interior of Brazil) the present family contains only one other
genus--_Chauna_--in which the head carries a feather-crest instead of
the long horny wattle of _Palamedea_. One species of _Chauna_ is met
with in Argentina, the only other known species (_C. derbiana_) being
confined to Colombia and Venezuela.