EGYPTIAN GOOSE. 



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NATATORES. 



ANATID/E. 



THE EGYPTIAN GOOSE. 



Anas Egyptiaca, Egyptian Goose, Bewick, Brit, Birds, vol. ii. p. 315. 



Anser Egyptiacus, ,, ,, Jenvns, Brit. Vert. p. 225. 



Chenalopex Egyptiaca, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xxi. 



Anser Egyptiacus, Oie Egyptienne, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. pt. iv. p. 523. 



It is only lately that the Egyptian Goose has been ad- 

 mitted into the histories and catalogues of our British Birds, 

 and even now exceptions are occasionally made to it, on the 

 ground that the specimens, though killed at large, or appa- 

 rently in a wild state, had probably escaped from the waters 

 of parks or pleasure grounds, where they had been bred and 

 fostered on account of the beauty of their plumage. Their 

 appearance, however, thus at large, the feathers exhibiting no 



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