BRITISH BIRDS. 
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EGYPTIAN GOOSE. 
GANSER, OR GAMBO GOOSE. 
i^Anas AEgyptlaca, Lin . — UOie d^Egypte, BufF.) 
This beautifully variegated fpecies is nearly of 
the fize of the Grey Lag, or common Wild Goofe. 
The bill red, about two inches in length, tip black, 
and noftrils dulky: eye-lids red, and the hides 
pale yellow: the throat, cheeks,. and upper part of 
the head are white : a rufty chefnut-coloured patch 
on each fide of the head furrounds the eyes. About 
two-thirds of the neck, from the head downwards, 
is of a pale reddifli bay colour, darker at the lower 
end : a broad deep chefnut-coloured fpot covers the 
middle of the bread: : the flioulders and fcapulars 
are of a reddifli brown, prettily eroded with nume- 
rous dark waved lines : the wing-coverts are white ; 
the greater ones barred near their tips with black ; 
the fecondary quills are tinged with reddifli bay, 
and bordered with chefnut ; thofe of the primaries 
which join them are edged with glolfy green, and 
the reft of the firft quills are black : the lower part 
of the back, the rump, and tail, are black: the 
belly is white, but all the other fore parts, and Tides 
of the body, from the neck to near the vent, are 
delicately pencilled with narrow ruft-coloured zig- 
zag lines on a pale afli-grey ground : each wing is 
Iprniflied on the bend with a fliort blunt fpur. The 
