488 DUCK. 



42. Anas Nilotica, HaJJih. Voy. p. 365. N° 36. 



NILOTIC D. M * J F * 



Description, QIZE between the Pintail Duck and the common Goo/e, b\xt 



ftands higher on its legs. Nail of the bill hoary; the margin 



of it is bounded by a callus, which is a little elevated, equal, 



and of a purplifli blood-colour ; a fecond encompafTes the bafe, 



a little elevated, of a dull purple, and has four warts, two on 



each fide : irides yellow : throat, fides of the neck, crown, and a 



lin'e behind the eyes, whitifh, fpotted with hoary or cinereous: 



breaft, belly, and thighs, whitifh brown, crofied with dufky tranf- 



verfe lines: fides of breaft and belly marked with oblong and 



hoary lines : tail longifh, rounded in fhape : legs red : claws 



black. 



Place. Inhabits the -Nile, in Uf per Egypt, but no where elfe, except 



perhaps on the bays of the Red Sea. The Arabians call it Bah *. 



Is eafily tamed, and lives among other domeftic poultry in 



Egypt. The above feems allied to the Mufcovy Goofe. 



* No doubt this is the fort called by Pococke, Bauk ; which he fays, when 

 fent into England, are known by the name of Baiv Geefe. — See Pocock. Trav. i. 

 p. zio. 



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