. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . C(^?/m //^U-J ,^lii?tv-r I^A^Do^ C/ti^L A. ^-l/i^ ^J7a7?i€nt7Z . ( 71 ) The Fhmmant, Phoenicopterus. Numb. LXXVII. JTS Length, from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Claws was four•^ Foot ten Inches and a half; Breadth four Foot; the Legs fixteenInches from the Knee to the end of the middle Claw ; its Bill five Inchesand a Quarter long, of a lingular Shape; the upper Mandible is flat andbroad, crooked and toothed; the lower thicker than the upper ; the Tipblack, in the^young
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . C(^?/m //^U-J ,^lii?tv-r I^A^Do^ C/ti^L A. ^-l/i^ ^J7a7?i€nt7Z . ( 71 ) The Fhmmant, Phoenicopterus. Numb. LXXVII. JTS Length, from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Claws was four•^ Foot ten Inches and a half; Breadth four Foot; the Legs fixteenInches from the Knee to the end of the middle Claw ; its Bill five Inchesand a Quarter long, of a lingular Shape; the upper Mandible is flat andbroad, crooked and toothed; the lower thicker than the upper ; the Tipblack, in the^young Birds of a dark blew. It is two Years before it arrives to its perfect Colour, at which time itis entirely red, except the prime Feathers of the Wings, which are black,when it is at its full bignefs; its Weight is two Pounds Hx Ounces and ahalf; its Legs are long, and of a red Colour, bare of Feathers a goodway above the Knees; the Toes webbed together; the Claws black. Thefe Birds make their Nefts on Hillocks in {hallow Water, on whichthey fit with their Legs extended downward. They breed on the Coafts ofCuba and the Bahama Iflands, and frequent t
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