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marked, although the male still has a lighter head and neck. Other species are the 

 small Australian brent goose (B.jubata), which is of the size of a duck, and char- 

 acterized by the extreme shortness of its beak, and its blackish head and neck, and 

 the Sandwich island goose (B. sandvicensis} . According to Mr. W. H. Hudson, 

 the upland goose, which, like some other members of the genus, has a small spur 

 on its wing, visits Patagonia in great numbers during the winter, and inflicts much 

 damage on the growing crops of young corn and clover. 



F . . The Egyptian goose (Chenalopex tegyptiaca) is the best-known 

 Knob- member of a genus typically represented by the knob-winged goose 

 Winged {C.jubata) of South America. It is characterized by the beak being 

 Geese equal in length to the head, and of rather slender form, with the tip 

 bent suddenly down so as almost to conceal the lower mandible, and the nostrils 

 placed near its base. The wings are rather long and broad, and are each armed 

 with a small bare knob, while the tail has fourteen rounded feathers. The legs are 

 relatively long, with the metatarsus exceeding the length of the third toe, and the 

 first toe is well developed. The windpipe of the male differs from that of ordinary 

 geese in being dilated at the lower end. In color the Egyptian goose has the sides 

 of the head and front of the neck mottled yellowish white; a patch round the eye, 

 the hinder neck, and a collar round the lower part of the latter are chestnut brown; 

 on the upper parts the general hue is mingled gray and black, and that of the under 

 parts yellowish brown, marked 

 with black and white, and be- 

 coming lighter on the hinder 

 parts of the breast and abdo- 

 men; the breast having a patch 

 of chestnut brown. The carpal 

 portion of the wing and wing 

 coverts is white, with black 

 tips to the smaller coverts; the 

 secondaries are tinged with 

 reddish bay, and edged with 

 chestnut; and the primaries 

 and tail feathers are brilliant 

 black. The iris is yellow; the 

 beak is horn color above, with 

 the tip pink, the nail, margin, 

 and base dark brown, and the 

 lower mandible cherry red; the 

 legs and feet being pink. 



This handsomely - colored 

 bird, which is the vulpanser of AMERICAN KNOB- WINGED GOOSE. 



Herodotus, was domesticated 



by the ancient Egyptians, and, although not sacred, was the emblem of Seb, the 

 father of Osiris. It now occurs in the Nile valley southward of Cairo, and thence 

 ranges over the greater part of tropical Africa, and is the common wild goose of 



