128 ANSEEES ALOPOCHEN 



617. Alopochen aegyptiacus. Berg Gans. 



Anas aegyptiaca, Linn., Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i, p. 197 (1766) ; Burcliell, 

 Travels, i, p. 283, ii, p. 346 (1822-24) ; Living stone , Miss. Travels, p. 

 254 (1857) ; Grill, K., Vet. Akad, Handl. ii, no. 10, p. 56 (1858). 



Chenalopex aegyptiacus. Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 336 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. 

 p. 347 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 49 [Natal] ; Layard, Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 377 ; Gurneij, in Andersson's B. Damaral.p. 335 (1872) ; Buckley, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 390 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 367 [Mashonaland] ; 

 Butler, Feilden and Eeid, Zool. 1882, p. 427 ; Holub fr Pelzeln, Om. 

 Sild-Afr. p. 322, fig. of bird on nest (1882) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's 

 B. S. Afr. p. 747 (1884) ; Nicolls and Eglington, Sportsm. S. Afr. p. 

 122 (1892) ; Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xxvii,' p. 167 (1895) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. i, p. 171 (1896) ; Woodivard Bros., Natal B. p. 209 (1899) ; 

 Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 443 ; Beiclienow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 131 (1900) ; 

 Whitehead, Ibis, 1903, p. 237 ; Shortridge, Ibis, 1904, p. 207. 



" Egyptian or Nile Goose " of some authors ; "' Esikwi " of Kaffirs 

 (Lawrence) a name also applied to the Spur- winged Goose; "Lefalva" of 

 Basutos (Murray). 



FIG. 38. Left foot of Alopochen cegyptiacus . x f 



Description. Adult female. Crown, lower cheeks and throat 

 dirty white, becoming darker and browner on the nape ; edging 

 round the base of the bill, a patch round the eye, an irregular ring 

 round the middle of the neck and patch in the middle of the breast 

 chestnut ; lower neck all round, sides of the body, flanks and 

 thighs, grey, finely mottled with narrow transverse bands of black ; 

 centre' of the abdomen white, becoming very pale chestnut on the 



