EGYPTIAN GOOSE. 
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by lengthened toes and hallux, the claws con- 
siderably curved, the former connected by a more 
deeply cut uniting membrane, the tarsi also are 
more than usually elongated; as signified by the 
name, the principal members of it are to a consider- 
able extent arboreal in habit. The species we have 
now to notice, however, goes considerably off from 
the types, being grallatorial in habit, strong, rearing 
its young easily in confinement. 
Chenalopex Generic characters . — Bill rather 
depressed, laminae slight, internal, completely 
hid by the edges, nostrils round, basal ; feet 
grallatorial, tibiae bare above the tarsal joint, 
hallux articulated above the plane of the foot, 
not lobed ; wings ample, tuberculated at the 
carpal joint, second quill longest. 
Type. — C. Egyptiaca. 
Note. — Europe, Africa. 
The Egyptian Goose, Chenalopex Egyptiaca. 
— Anas andAnser Egyptiaca of authors. — The Egyp- 
tian Goose of British authors . — Vulpanser of the 
ancients . — This species is easily kept and reared in 
confinement, and is in consequence frequently to be 
found in the vicinity of artificial waters, and in 
parks or pleasure-grounds ; from this circumstance 
many of those specimens which have been killed as 
wild birds, have made their escape or strayed from 
their civilized residences ; such we consider to have 
