242 duck. 



under parts, white ; outer wing coverts, the bend, and inner ridge 

 the same, but the rest of the wing black ; at the bend a strong, 

 sharp spur, one inch and a half long, and horn-coloured ; legs red. 



Inhabits Gambia, and other parts of Africa. At Senegal it is 

 called Hitt. Buffon's description (if he really means our bird), is 

 delivered in a very obscure, and unintelligible manner, and on com- 

 paring the text of the Hist, des Ois. with the plates he refers to in 

 the PI. enlnm. we plainly see that they can only be the Egyptian 

 Goose, in different stages of life. Ray and Willughby's concise 

 descriptions prove them to have been the only persons who had 

 formed a right idea of the bird; and we must own, that our complete 

 knowledge of it is solely owing to a specimen in the Leverian 

 Museum, and at that time the only one extant in any collection, as 

 far as our own observations afforded us, or those of our friends. 

 We have since, however, met with a female ; and Mr. Thompson, 

 through whose hands it passed in preparation, remarked, that the 

 carunculated red bare part at the base of the bill occupied less space, 

 and the spur at the bend of the wing was much smaller; nor had 

 the windpipe in this sex any other conformation than is usually seen. 



22— BARRED-HEADED GOOSE. 



Anas Indica, Ind. Orn. ii. 839. 



Barred-headed Goose, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 277. View of Hind. ii. 159. 



SIZE of a Tame Goose ; length twenty-six inches. Bill two, 

 of a bright yellow, with a bent, black nail at the tip ; head, chin, 

 throat, and stripe down the sides of the neck, white ; at the back of 

 the head a broad black bar, curving in a point to the eye ; some way 

 below it a second, not quite so broad, curving to a point on the ear ; 

 from this the back of the neck, the whole way, is dusky black; back 

 fine pale grey, the edges of the feathers lightest ; wings pale ash- 

 colour; edges of the prime quills dusky; lower part of the neck 



