244 duck. 



24— EGYPTIAN GOOSE. 



Anas iEgyptiaca, Ind. Orn. ii. 840. Lin. i. 197. Gm. Lin. i. 512. Bris. vi. 284. 



pi. 27. Id. 8vo. ii. 437. 

 Anas hyberna foemina, Gerin. v. pi. 578. 

 L'Oie d'Egypte, Buf. ix. p. 79. Pl.enl. 379. 

 Gambo Goose, Will. t. 71. f . 1 ? 

 The Ganser, Albin, ii. pi. 99. 

 Egyptian Goose, Gen. Syn. vi. 563. Bewick, ii. p. 287. Nat. Misc. pi. 605. 



SIZE of the Common Goose ; length two feet three inches. Bill 

 two inches long, and red; nostrils dusky; tip black; irides yellowish 

 white; eyelids reddish; on each side of the head a large rufous 

 chestnut spot, in the middle of which the eyes are placed ; the crown, 

 and the rest of the head and throat for the most part white ; the last 

 spotted with chestnut ; the ueck for about two parts of its length 

 pale chestnut, growing much deeper in colour at the lower part ; 

 the upper parts of the back and scapulars brownish red, crossed with 

 numerous, dusky lines ; back and rump black ; the lower part of the 

 neck before, the breast, sides, and thighs, very pale rufous, crossed 

 with numerous dusky lines; on the breast a large spot of deep 

 chestnut; belly white ; under tail coverts yellowish; wing coverts 

 white, the greater, nearest the body, crossed at the ends with black ; 

 those farthest from it black ; the greater quills black, and except 

 the five first, edged with green gold ; the secondaries margined with 

 chestnut; on the bend of the wing a blunt spur, half an inch long; 

 tail black ; legs red ; claws dusky. 



The female has the chestnut patch round the eye smaller ; chin 

 white; the spot on the breast smaller, and in some wholly wanting, 

 lesser wing coverts white, the others pale ash, with darker margins ; 

 the lower order fringed with white, forming a bar on the wing; 

 scapulars and second quills much inclined to chestnut; in other 

 things like the male. 



