. The birds of British Guiana : based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell ... . ge and formidable sj)urs oneach wing. These birds, to judge by their curiously loud clangingcry in the morning, are common all along tbis part ut the creek ; 184 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. but this specimen wiis the only one obtained on Tiger I:»landin the JEtn swamp. Mr. Beebe (Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 381) gives thefollowing note :— from behind tlie liouse, from the edgeof the distant eta bush itself, comes in tlie evenings a low sound,gaining in volume until the syllables may be frame
. The birds of British Guiana : based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell ... . ge and formidable sj)urs oneach wing. These birds, to judge by their curiously loud clangingcry in the morning, are common all along tbis part ut the creek ; 184 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. but this specimen wiis the only one obtained on Tiger I:»landin the JEtn swamp. Mr. Beebe (Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 381) gives thefollowing note :— from behind tlie liouse, from the edgeof the distant eta bush itself, comes in tlie evenings a low sound,gaining in volume until the syllables may be framed to humanspeech—l\[o-h6o-ca I Mo-hoo-ca I and we are listening to theevenintr call of the Horned Screamer, a bird known to us onlvfrom books. Order PHCENICOPTEHIFORMES. Family PHCENICOPTERIDJi:. The members that compose this family are easily distinguishedby their small heads, long thin necks, small bodies, and verylong legs with webbed toes. They are distributed in Europe,Africa, Asia, Florida, and the Gulf States of North America,Central and South America to the Galapagos Fig. 47.—To illu^^trate the iieculiar shape of the bill. Genus PH(ENICOPTERUS Linn. Fncenicoptenis Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed i. p. 139, 175S. TjpeP. ruber Linn. The chief characters of this genus are the very peculiar shapedbill and the naked throat. PHOEXICOPTERUS. 185 116. Phoenicopterus ruber. Flamingo. Phoenicopterus ruher Linn. Srst. Nat. 10th ed. i. p. 139, 1758 (Jamaica,Cuba, and Bahamas); Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Gruian. iii. p. 761,1818 ;Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 172 ; Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 9,1895 ; Llovd, Timehri (2) xi. p. 6, 1897 (Waini Creek) ; Gates,Cat. Birds Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. p. 136, 1902 (Savanas of BritishGuiana); Beebe, Gur Search for a , p. (Marooka);Brabom-ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 53, no. 493, 1912. Adult. General colour pale vermilion which varies in theintensity of colour on different portions of the body ; axillariesbright scarlet;
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