THE EGYPTIAN GOOSE 
Chenalopex aegyptiacus 
Centre of head light brown; upper part of throat and 
cheeks white, shading into brown; forehead, round the eye, 
and neck, a chestnut bright brown; upper parts of back, 
chest, and flanks, reddish buff, with dusky bars; large 
wing-feathers black; a metallic green bar crosses wing ; 
lower half of back and tail black; a deep chocolate patch 
on centre of breast; centre of abdomen white; under-tail 
coverts buff; legs, dark pink; beak, dull flesh colour; eyes 
brown. Total length, 26 inches. 
Tue Egyptian Goose is a handsomely coloured 
bird, and when seen sunning itself on some sand- 
bank it makes a brilliant picture. It is a real native 
of the Nile, and breeds in the early spring—March 
and April; and sportsmen’s records tell of its being 
a quite shootable bird in the first weeks of May. 
In 1907, only a quarter of a mile from the busiest 
part of Luxor, there might have been seen daily a 
charming little flotilla of the parents and four 
young ones swimming about round the promontory 
of land that there juts out. They had nested in 
the cultivation that at that point comes down to 
the very water’s edge. This is the ideal position 
they love, as they can, on the approach of danger, 
slip at once into the water, where they are 
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