Our guide, Juan Villca, was able to distinguish the three species at a glance and called them respectively "Guaichete" [sic – jetete ] ( Phoenicopterus chilensis ). "Tococo" ( Phoenicoparrus andinus ), and "Chururo" ( Ph. jamesi ). He stated that sometimes a few "parinas" (flamingos) of another kind known as "Jetete" [sic – guaichete ] were also to be seen, and that these could be distinguished from the others by their whiter wing-coverts and by the absence of the wine-colour on the neck. Although the remote possibility that a fourth species of flamingo does in fact exist in these desolate wastelands should not be discarded altogether, and in spite of our guide's assurance that a few might be seen at the nesting colonies, it is our impression that the "Jetete" corresponds to inmature specimens of Phoenicoparrus andinus which, as we learned from experience when we later shot one, mistaking it for an adult Ph. jamesi , cann...