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broad and flattened at the base, gradually narrowed and 
convex, the dorsal line decimate, somewhat concave, the 
edges concealing the outer ends of the thin lamellae, the 
unguis roundish, very convex, and much decurved ; lower 
mandible with the intercrural space long, rather wide, and 
bare, the short dorsal line convex, the lower outline of the 
crura straight, the unguis broad, roundish, a little convex. 
Nostrils rather small, elliptical, submedial. Eyes small, 
eyelids feathered. Legs of moderate length, stout, placed 
well forward ; tibia bare for a short space ; tarsus mode- 
rately compressed, reticulated, but with the anterior scales 
scutelliform ; hind toe very small, elevated, with a thick lobe 
beneath ; the outer little shorter than the third ; all scaly 
at the base, scutellate toward the end ; interdigital mem- 
branes full, the outer emarginate ; claws short, strong, little 
arched, obtuse. Plumage full, close, firm, blended ; feathers 
of the head very small, of the neck narrow, blended ; of the 
back oblong and rounded, of the sides broad and rounded ; 
wings of moderate length, broad, rather pointed, the second 
quill longest ; inner secondaries elongated ; tail short, rounded, 
of fourteen broad feathers. 
238 . Chenalopex JEgyptiacus, Egyptian Fox-Goose. 
Male about twenty-eight inches long ; bill two inches and 
two-twelfths, reddish flesh-colour, with the unguis and part 
of the margin of the upper mandible black ; feet reddish flesh- 
colour. A roundish space about the eye, with a band from 
thence to the base of the bill, and the feathers along the lat- 
ter, light chestnut-red. The rest of the head cream-colour, 
shaded into glossy brownish-red along the hind part of the 
neck for half its length, when it enlarges and passes across 
the neck in front ; throat reddish-white ; fore part of back 
and scapulars brownish-red, undulated with dusky and grey, 
the larger scapulars chiefly red ; the rest of the back and the 
tail-feathers glossy black ; smaller wing-coverts white ; se- 
condary coverts white, with a transverse black band near 
the end ; primary quills black tinged with brown, secondary 
greyish-black, but with part of their outer webs glossy deep 
green, and four of the inner grey internally, and light red on 
the outer web ; the lower parts cream-colour, paler in the 
middle ; on the sides finely undulated with brownish-grey ; 
