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JEGYPTIAN CHENALOPEX. 
With the back castaneous ; below slightly tinged with ee 
yellow, epee and lineated with brown. 
IN. IN. 
DRG cs ie Jaws egceovauast: DES fg eS ST PTY pe 
Pr eckaeek, «ba Wideeeds . 22 MEADE. FOC occ aie vcr veces 3 
Male: head and neck hoary, with the occiput and a stripe down 
_ the back of the neck approaching to ferruginous; a patch round the 
eyes, and ring round the lower part of the neck deep castaneous ; 
upper part of the back, scapulars, tertiaries, and a triangular patch — 
on the breast also castaneous, some of the feathers in the former 
being irrorated with black; the inner webs also of some of the ter- 
 tiaries hoary grey. The whole of the remainder of the breast and 
under surface is light yellow ferruginous, irrorated with brown, 
except the abdomen, which is pure white; vent ferruginous; lower 
part of the back, tail, quills, and spurious wings black; secondaries 
bright metallic green, forming the wing-spot; wing coverts white, 
the greater ones with a bar of black near the tips; bill and legs orange. 
Female: with the chestnut patches round the eyes and on the 
breast smaller. | 
Anas ALG YPC sveceervaeesers Linn. Syst. 1. 197. 
Gimel. Syst. 1. 512. 
Briss. Orn. 6. 284. pl. 27. 
Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 8490. 
Chenalopea Aigyptiacd ........ Steph. Sh. Zool. 12. 43. 
DMI WE PIGGUDUC cc care dus ccousesss Buff. Pl. Hin. 379, 982, 983. 
LGypUan GOO8e cues daccvesesses Lath. Syn. 6. 455. 
Inhabits most parts of Africa, especially Egypt and the Cape of 
Good Hope. We have figured the trachea and skeleton of this bird 
in illustration of the genus. © 
CHENALOPEX JUBATUS, Sprx. 
Che.—Migyptiaco similis sed majore et cristatus alisque anteriore 
eeneus. 
CuE. similar to heabace igyptiacus, but larger; the head 
_ erested, and anterior part of the wing seneous. 
