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broad and flattened at the base, gradually narrowed and 

 convex, the dorsal line declinate, somewhat concave, the 

 edges concealing the outer ends of the thin lamellae, the 

 unguis roundish, very convex, and much decurved ; lower 

 mandible with the intercrural space long, rather wide, and 

 bare, the short dorsal line convex, the lower outline of the 

 crura straight, the unguis broad, roundish, a little convex. 

 Nostrils rather small, elliptical, submedial. Eyes small, 

 eyelids feathered. Legs of moderate length, stout, placed 

 well forward ; tibia bare for a short space ; tarsus mode- 

 rately compressed, reticulated, but with the anterior scales 

 Bcutelliform ; hind toe very small, elevated, with a thick lobe 

 beneath ; the outer little shorter than the third ; all scaly 

 at the base, scutellate toward the end ; interdigital mem- 

 branes full, the outer emarginate ; claws short, strong, little 

 arched, obtuse. Plumage full, close, firm, blended ; feathers 

 of the head very small, of the neck narrow, blended ; of the 

 back oblong and rounded, of the sides broad and rounded ; 

 wings of moderate length, broad, rather pointed, the second 

 quill longest ; inner secondaries elongated; tail short, rounded, 

 of fourteen broad feathers. 



238. CHENALOPEX JEGYPTIACUS. EGYPTIAN Fox-GoosE. 



Male about twenty-eight inches long ; bill two inches and 

 two-twelfths, reddish flesh-colour, with the unguis and part 

 of the margin of the upper mandible black ; feet reddish flesh- 

 colour. A roundish space about the eye, with a band from 

 thence to the base of the bill, and the feathers along the lat- 

 ter, light chestnut-red. The rest of the head cream-colour, 

 shaded into glossy brownish-red along the hind part of the 

 neck for half its length, when it enlarges and passes across 

 the neck in front ; throat reddish-white ; fore part of back 

 and scapulars brownish-red, undulated with dusky and grey, 

 the larger scapulars chiefly red ; the rest of the back and the 

 tail-feathers glossy black ; smaller wing-coverts white ; se- 

 condary coverts white, with a transverse black band near 

 the end ; primary quills black tinged with brown, secondary 

 greyish-black, but with part of their outer webs glossy deep 

 green, and four of the inner grey internally, and light red on 

 the outer web ; the lower parts cream-colour, paler in the 

 middle, on the sides finely undulated with brownish-grey ; 



