﻿SPUR-AVINGED GOOSE. 43 



mantle, hack, wing-coverts, and tertials are deep metallic 

 brown colour ; reflected with, purple and copper in different 

 lights ; the upper and outer ridge, including the spurious 

 wing, are white, as also the greater wing-coverts, forming 

 thereby a white band across the wing ; the secondaries are 

 rich deep green ; the quills are dusky ; the tail wood-brown ; 

 the belly and under tail-coverts are white ; the vent dusky. 



The egg figured 235 is that of the Spur-winged 

 Goose. 



