

422 AVES. 



lous story of its growing on trees like fruit Anas erythropus, 

 Gm., or better ^n. leucopsis, Bechst. Enl. 885; Frisch, 189; 

 Naum. I, c. 39, f. 77. Its mantle is ash-coloured, its neck 

 blackj cheeks, throat, belly and forehead white; the bill black 

 and the feet grey. 



dn. bernicla, Gm.; Le Cravant,{l)En\. 342;"and better Frisch, 

 155; Naum. I, c. 39, f. 78; Wils., VIII, Ixxii, 1 (The Brant), 

 is from the same country. The head, neck, and quills of the 

 wings are black, the mantle a brown-grey; a spot on each side 

 of the upper part of the neck, and the under part of the tail, 

 white; the bill black and feet brown. 



Jin. segyptiaca, Gm.; Le Bernache armee; Oied'Egypte, Src.rc. 

 Enl. 379, 982, 983 (The Egyptian Goose), remarkable for 

 the lustre of its colours and the small spur attached to its wing, 

 also belongs to this subgenus; it is sometimes domesticated, 

 but always retains a propensity to return to its wild state. It 

 is the Chenalopex or Fox Goose, held in veneration among the 

 ancient Egyptians on account of its attachment to its young.(2) 

 The 



Cereopsis, Lath. 



Is a New Holland bird very similar to the Bernacles, with a still 

 smaller bill, the membrane of which is much broader, and extends 

 a little upon the forehead. 



Cer. cinereus, Lath., Col. 206; Vieill. Gal. 284, is the only one 

 known. It is the size of a Goose, and of a grey colour. 



Anas, Meyer. 



Ducks, properly so called, have the bill broader at base than it 

 is high, and wider at the end than towards the head; the nostrils 

 nearer to its back and base. Their legs being shorter than those of 

 Geese, and placed farther back, renders walking more difficult to 

 them than to the latter. Their neck also is shorter; the trachea is 

 inflated at its bifurcation into cartilaginous capsules, the left of 

 which is usually the largest. 



The species of the first division, or those whose thumb is bor- 



(1) Cravant, a corruption otgrau ent, grey Duck. 



(2) GeofF. St. Hillaire, Menag. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat. art. Oie d'Egypte. 



Add the .in. magellanica, Enl. 1006; An. antarctica, which is closely allied to 

 it, Mus., Carls., 37, and Voy. de la Coq. Zool. 50; An. leucoptera, Brown., 111. 

 40; A. rujicollis and torquata. Pall. Spicil., VI, pi. iv, which is said to penetrate 

 as far as Germany; An. cm-omandelica, Enl. 949, 950; An. madagascarienms, 

 Enl. 770. 



