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though not at Buenos Ayres. Azara says, that females have neither 

 crest on their bill, nor frisled feathers, nor yellow tint on the ears, or 

 sides of the rump; neck entirely varied white and dusky purple; 

 back rayed with white ; otherwise like the male. 



I find this bird well represented in various drawings from India. 

 The bill black, with a white point, and in the male the excrescence 

 of an enormous size ; general colour of the plumage much the same, 

 but about the usual place of the speculum the wing appears to be glossy 

 green ; the white surrounds the neck as a collar ; tail short, that and 

 the quills dusky black; on the sides of the vent some blue and 

 yellow feathers ; wings and tail even. In the above drawings it is 

 called Nucta ka Hanse ; but in some others, it is simply called 

 Nuckdah. 



BufFon supposes this may be the Goose found at Madagascar,* 

 called Rassangue, said to have a red crest on the head ; by this is 

 probably meant the knob, or protuberance, which may be of that 

 colour during the life of the bird ; unless, like the Chinese Goose, it 

 may vary in this particular. 



21— SPUR- WING ED GOOSE. 



Anas Gambensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 839. Lin. i. 195. Gin. Lin. i. 503. Bris. vi. 283. 



Id. 8vo. ii. 436. Rati, 138. 9. Will. 275. t. 71. Mus. Lever. 231. t. 56. 

 Anser Chilensis, an the Gambo, Will} Klein, Av. 129. vii. 

 L'Oie arraee, Biif. ix. p. 76. 

 Gambo Goose, Will. Engl. 360. pi. 71 ? 

 Spur-winged Goose, Gen. Syn.x\. 452. pi. 102. 



SIZE of the Common Goose, but stands higher on its legs. Bill 

 two inches long, red, and at the base a red protuberance; cheeks 

 and chin white; neck, sides of the breast, back, rump and tail, black, 

 inclining to purple on the back ; middle of the breast, and all the 



* Flacourt's Madag. 165. 



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