DUCK. 453 



plates in the Planches Enluminees *, we plainly fee that they are 

 only the Egyptian Goofe in different ftages of life. We mud here 

 confefs, that our better knowledge of this bird is folely owing to 

 a fpecimen in the Leverian Mufeum, from which our figure was 

 taken ; and perhaps is the only one extant in our Mufeums, ac- 

 cording to our own obfervations, or thofe of our friends. 



Anas iEgyptiaca, Lin. Syft. i. p. 197. 10. 16. 



L'Oye d'Egypte, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 284. 9. pi. zj.—Buf. Oif. ix. p. 79. +" EGYPTIAN 



pi. if.— PI. Enl. 379. 982. 983. 

 Gambo Goofe, Will. Orn. pi. 71 \. 

 The Ganfer, Albin, ii. pi. 93. 



Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of the common Goofe : length two feet three inches. The 

 bill two inches long, and red ; noftrils dufky; tip black: 

 irides yellowifh white : eye-lids reddifh : on each fide of the 

 head a large rufous chefnut fpot, in the middle of which the 

 eyes are placed : the crown, and the reft of the head and throat, 

 are for the moft part white, the laft a- little fpotted with chefnut : 

 the neck, for about two parts of its length, is pale chefnut, grow- 

 ing of a much deeper colour at the lower part: the upper parts 

 of the back and fcapulars are of a brownifH red, croffed with 

 numerous dufky lines : back and rump black : the lower part of 

 the neck before, the breaft, the fides, and thighs, very pale ru- 



* PI. Enl. 982, 983. — Willugiiy's figure likewife by no means anfwers to his 

 defcription of the bird. — See Orn. pi. 71. referred to by this author. 



+ This is plainly the Egyptian Goofe, though the index refers it to the Spur- 

 winged; but in the laft the knobs are not of half the length of thofe of the firftj 

 nor are they fiiarp at the points. 



fous. 



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