Order ANSERES. 



r Family ANATID^E. 



Genus PLECTROPTERUS, Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. 

 xii. pt. 2, p. 6 (1824). 



Plectropterm = spur-winged, from TrXfjicrpov + Trrepov. 



Plectropterus gambensis. SPUR-WINGED GOOSE. 

 Anas gambensis, Linnaeus , S. N. i. p. 195 (1766). 



Plectropterus gambensis, Macg. iv. p. 644; Gray, p. 183; 



Harting, p. 157. 



Anser gambensis, Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 177 ; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 181. 

 The Spur-winged Goose, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 87. 

 Gambensis = of Senegambia, in W. Africa. 



Four specimens have been recorded, one in Scotland and 

 three in England; all were probably escaped birds. It in- 

 habits Western and Southern Africa.] 



[Genus CHENALOPEX, Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. 

 xii. pt. 2, p. 41 (1824). 



Chenalopex = %7jva\w7r;^, vulp-anser (G-aza), Fox Goose, in classical Greek ; 



from xn v + aXwTrjfE, from its living in holes. 



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Chenalopex cegyptiacus. EGYPTIAN GOOSE. 

 Anas aegyptiaca, Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 197 (1766). 



Chenalopex segyptiacus, Macg. iv. p. 369. 



Anser egyptiacus, Hewitson, p. 390; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 173; 



id. ed. 3, iii. p. 177 ; Gould, Introd. p. cxxi. 

 Chenalopex segyptiaca, Gray, p. 183. 

 Anser segyptiacus, Harting, p. 61. 

 The Egyptian Goose, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 177. 



JEgyptmcus = AryuTrnafcos, Egyptian. 



Various specimens have been obtained ; but all, it is sup- 

 posed, must have escaped from confinement. It is a native 

 of Africa.] 



