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SARKIDIORNJS AFR1CANUS. 



Sar. — Minusquam precedent!, sed in colore similis. 



AFRICAN BLACK-BACKED GOOSE. 



Less than the preceding, but in colour similar. 



IN. 



Male : Length 23 Tarsi 2 



Bill 2 Middle toe 2| 



Fein. : Length 21 Tarsi 1| 



Bill If Middle toe 2 a 



Both sexes resemble perfectly in colouring the preceding species, except in admeasurement, in 

 which they differ considerably. ^Ye have never seen a specimen with the caruncle, our specimen 

 having evidently had it cut off, probably from the difficulty of preserving it. 



Sarkidiornis Africanus t/ohia. 



The four specimens in our collection were received from the Gamba river. Specimens have 

 also been brought home by Dr» Smith from Southern Africa, who will in his forthcoming work 

 publish a figure of this species. 



CHENALOPEX ^GYPTIACA. 



Chen. — Dorso castaneo; subtus leviter flavo-ferrugineo, sparsus lineatusque brunnco. 



EGYPTIAN CHENALOPEX. 



With the back castaneous ; below slightly tinged with ferruginous yellow, sprinkled and line- 

 ated with brown. 



IN. IN. 



Length 27| Tarsi 3 



Bill 21 Middle toe 3 



Male: head and neck hoary, witli the occiput and a stripe down the back of the neck 

 approaching to ferruginous ; a patch round the eyes and ring round the lower part of the neck deep 

 ineoufi • upper part of the back, scapulars, tertiaries, and a triangular patch on the breast, also 

 castaneous, some of the feathers in the former heing irrorated with black; the inner webs also 

 of BOme of the tertiaries hoary grey. The whole of the remainder of the breast and under surface i* 

 lighl yellow ferruginous irrorated with brown, except the abdomen, which is pure white; vent 

 ferruginous; lower part of the back, tail, quills, and spurious wing, black ; secondaries bright 

 metallic green, forming the wing spot; wing coverts white, the greater ones with a liar of hlaek 

 near the tips ; bill and legs oranj 



