( 231 ) 



THE GAMBIAN GOOSE. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill ftrong, broad, flat or deprefled ; and commonly furnifhed at the end 



with a nail. Edges marked with Iharp lamelU. 

 Nostrils fmall, oval. 



Tongue broad, edges near the bafe fringed. 

 Feet, middle toe the longed. 



Pennant. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Piirplilh-black Goofe, white beneath, with fpined fhoulders, and bill gib- 

 bous at the bafe. 

 Gambo Goofe. 



TFill. orn. p. 360. 



THE Anas Gambenfis of Linnreiis, or Gambo Goofe of Willoughby, is 

 very rarely to be met with in coUeftions ; and it is obfervcd by 

 Mr. Latkam, in his Synopfis of birds, that it is probably no where to be 

 found in our own Country except in the Leverian Mufeiim. T he Egyp- 

 tian goofe, (Anas Aegyptiaca. I in.) a fpecies widely differing from it, 

 has been fometimes confounded with it by ornithological writers. 



Its 



