Plate CCCCXXXI. Male.
Bill yellow tinged with bright orange, at the end black; feet lake;
plumage scarlet, excepting the ten primaries, and twenty of the
secondaries, which are black.
_Male_, 45-1/2, 66.
Rather rare, and only during summer in the Florida Keys, and the
western coast of Florida. Accidental as far as South Carolina.
Constantly resident in Cuba.
Red Flamingo, Phœnicopterus ruber, Wils. Amer. Orn, v.
viii. p. 145.
Phœnicopterus ruber, Bonap. Syn. p. 348.
American or Red Flamingo, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 71.
American Flamingo, Phœnicopterus ruber, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
v. p. 255.
GENUS II. ANSER, Briss. GOOSE.
Bill shorter than the head, rather higher than broad at the base,
somewhat conical, depressed toward the end, rounded at the tip; upper
mandible with the dorsal line sloping, the ridge broad and flattened,
the sides sloping, the edges soft and obtuse, internally with numerous
oblique marginal lamellæ, the unguis obovate, convex; nasal groove
oblong, filled by the soft membrane of the bill; nostrils medial,
lateral, longitudinal, narrow-elliptical, open, pervious, lower
mandible straight, with the angle very long, narrow, and rounded, the
edges soft and obtuse, with numerous oblique lamellæ, the tip broadly
convex. Head small, oblong, compressed; neck long and slender; body
very full, slightly depressed. Feet short, stout; tibia bare for a
short space below; tarsus short, a little compressed, covered all
round with angular scales; hind toe very small and elevated, third toe
longest, fourth longer than second; all reticulated at the base,
scutellate toward the end, the anterior webbed. Claws small, arched,
rather compressed. Plumage close, compact above, blended beneath.
Wings long, convex, the second quill longest, the first and third
nearly equal. Tail very short, of sixteen or more feathers.