EGYPTIAN GOOSE. 



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XATATORES. 



THE EGYPTIAN GOOSE. 



^Iws^/* Egyptiacus. 



Anas Egyptiaca, Egyptian Goose, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 315. 



Anser Egyptiacus, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 225. 



CJicnalopex Egyptiaca, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xxi. 



Anser Egyptiacus^ Oie Egyptienne^ TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. pt. iv. p. 523. 



IT is only lately that the Egyptian Goose has been ad- 

 mitted into the histories and catalogues of our British 

 Birds, and even now exceptions are occasionally made to 

 it, on the ground that the specimens, though killed at 

 large, or apparently in a wild state, had probably escaped 

 from the waters of parks or pleasure grounds, where they 

 had been bred and fostered on account of the beauty of 

 their plumage. Their appearance, however, thus at large, 



