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PLATE CCXXVI. 



EGYPTIAN GOOSE. 



ANSER EGYPTIANIS. 



The Egyptian Goose is an occasional visitant in Great 

 Britain, and although some ornithologists consider it illegal 

 to place it among the British Birds, we have Colonel Hawker's 

 authority for doing so, in consequence of the frequent occur- 

 rence of the species in many parts of the country, under 

 circumstances of undoubted wildness ; especially the occur- 

 rence of a flock of nearly eighty, that visited Hampshire, of 

 which some were shot. 



The geographical distribution of this species extends over 

 the entire continent of Africa, from Egypt to the Cape of 

 Good Hope ; from thence they visit the south of Europe, 

 principally about the Danube : they also frequent the islands 

 of the Archipelago, and Sicily. 



The locality preferred by the Egyptian Goose, seems un- 

 doubtedly the shores of inland seas, rivers, and lakes ; from 



