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This species inhabits Egypt, and other parts of Africa ; and is 

 sufficiently common at the Cape of Good Hope,* from whence 

 numbers have been brought into England ; is also in Abyssinia, and 

 now not uncommon in gentlemen's ponds, in many parts of this 

 kingdom, being an admired and beautiful species. 



Whether this breeds in a wild state in this kingdom seems uncer- 

 tain, but instances are not wanting of being met with at large ; 

 five or six were shot near Buscot Park, not far from Farringdon, 

 Berks, in 1803 or 1804; and in January 1805, one was killed by 

 a gentleman's game-keeper, near Stamford, in Lincolnshire. 



A.— L'Oie sauvage du Cap de B. Esp. Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 220. PL enl. 982, 983. 

 Gen. Syn. vi. 454. 16. A. Ind. Om. ii. 840. 



This is a mere Variety of the former. Bill greyish, with a black 

 point; irides yellow; head, neck, belly, and vent, grey; eye sur- 

 rounded with a naked skin of a chestnut-colour; on the breast a 

 large black spot; back, wings, and rump, chestnut; on the edge of 

 the wing some white feathers; tail black; legs red. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



25— GREY-HEADED GOOSE. 



Anas cana, Ind. Om. ii. 840. Gm. Lin. i. 510. 

 L'Oie sauvage a tete grise de Coromandel, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 220? 



Grey-headed Goose, Gen. Syn. vi. 458. Id. Sup. 273. Brown, III. pi. 41. 42. Barr, 

 Trav. p. 264. Penn. Hindoost. ii. 160. 



SIZE of a small Goose. Bill dusky, or black; head and neck 

 whitish, with a rufous tinge; the rest of the plumage pale tawny: 

 the margins of the feathers paler, appearing as waved semicircular 



* The vast numbers of the Egyptian and Mountain Goose, of Teals, and several species 

 of Ducks, that harboured in the reeds about Swart-kops River Swamp, were incredible, 

 and the damage they did to the corn very considerable. — Barrow's Trav. 



