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by lengthened toes and hallux, the claws con- 

 siderably curved, the former connected by a more 

 deeply cut uniting membrane, the tarsi also are 

 more than usually elongated; as signified by the 

 name, th-e principal members of it are to a consider- 

 able extent arboreal in habit. The species we have 

 now to notice, however, goes considerably off from 

 the types, being grallatorial in habit, strong, rearing 

 its young easily in confinement. 



CHENALOPEX. Generic characters. Bill rather 

 depressed, laminae slight, internal, completely 

 hid by the edges, nostrils round, basal ; feet 

 grallatorial, tibiae bare above the tarsal joint, 

 hallux articulated above the plane of the foot, 

 not lobed ; wings ample, tuberculated at the 

 carpal joint, second quill longest. 



Type. C. Egyptiaea. 



Note. Europe, Africa. 



THE EGYPTIAN GOOSE, CHENALOPEX EGYPTIACA. 

 Anas andAnser Egyptiaea of authors. The Egyp- 

 tian Goose of British authors. Vulpanser of the 

 ancients. This species is easily kept and reared in 

 confinement, and is in consequence frequently to be 

 found in the vicinity of artificial waters, and in 

 parks or pleasure-grounds ; from this circumstance 

 many of those specimens which have been killed as 

 wild birds, have made their escape or strayed from 

 their civilized residences ; such we consider to have 



