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upon this subject, I must refer my readers to the 

 second number of the Zoological Journal, wherein 

 they will find the subject of ornithological nomencla- 

 ture ably discussed by my friend N. A. Vigors, Esq. 

 F. L. S. &c. to whom I am greatly indebted for many 

 observations relative to the arrangement of the Na- 

 tafores. 



EGYPTIAN SPURWING. 



(Chenalopex JEgyptiaca.) 



CH. corpore ilndulnto, -ceriicc albo, xpecitlo alari candido J~(u>cia 



nigro. 

 Spurwing with the body waved, the crown white, the alar spe- 



ctdum white, with a black fascia. 

 Anas JEgyptiaca. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 197. Gmel. Syst. Xat. 



1. 512. Briss. Orn. 6. 284. pi. 27. Lath. Ind. Orn. L'. 

 L'Oie d'Egypte. Bnf. Hist. Xat. Ois. 9. 79. Buff. PI. Enl. 



379. 

 L'Oie Sauvage du Cap de Bonne Esperancc. Buff. PI. Enl. 



982, 983. 



La Barnacle armee. Cu-. Reg. Anim. 1. 531. 

 The Ganser. Alb. Birds, ].pl. 93. 

 Egyptian Goose. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 453. 



LENGTH two feet three inches : the beak two inches 

 long, and red, with a black tip : the nostrils dusky : 

 irides yellowish-white : the eyelids reddish : on each 

 side of the head is a large rufous or chesnut spot, 

 encircling the eyes : the crown of the head and the 

 throat are white, the latter spotted with chesnut : the 

 neck, for about two parts of its length, is pale ches- 



