are thought a great ornament to the pieces of water in many
gentlemen’s feats, where they are very familiar, and breed freely.
The flelh of the young birds is accounted good; and the feathers
equal to thofe of other Geefe, infomuch as to prove an article
of commerce, much in the favour of thofe places where
they are in fufficient numbers.
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5 PUR-WIN GED
G.
Pl. CII.
An as Gambenfis, Lin. Syjî. i. p. 195. 3.
L’Oye de Gambie, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 283. 8.
L*Oie armée, Bu/. OiJ\ ix. p. 76 ?
Gambo Goofe, Raii Syn. p. 138. 9.—WilU Orn. p. 360.
• Lev. Mu/.
D escription, g I Z E of the common Goofe, but Hands higher on its legs. The
- bill more than two inches long, of a red colour, and at the
bafe of it a red protuberance: the cheeks and chin are white :
the neck, fides of the breaft, back, rump, and tail, black, inclining
to purple on the back: the middle of the bread:, and all the under
parts, white : the outer wing coverts, the bend, and inner
ridge, the fame; but the reft of the wing black; on the bend, a
ftrong, lharp fpur, an inch and a half long, and horn-coloured :
the legs red.
P la c e . Inhabits Gambia, and other parts of Africa. At Senegal is
called Hitt *.
Buff on's defcription of this bird ( i f he means what we have
defcribed above) is delivered in a very obfcure and unintelligent
manner. Ray and Willughby's limple defcription prove them to
have been the only perfons who had formed a right idea of the
bird; for on comparing the text of the Hiß. des Oifeaux with the
Hiß. des Oif.
plates in the Planches .Enluminées*, we plainly fee that they are
only the Egyptian Goofe in different ftages of life. We mud: here
confefs, that our better knowledge of this bird is folely owing to
a fpecimen in the Leverian Mufeum, from which our figure was
taken; and perhaps is the only one extant in our Mufeums, according
to our own obfervations, or thofe of our friends.
Anas Asgyptiaca, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 197. 10.
L’Oye d’Egypte, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 284. 9. pl. 27.— Buf. Oif. ix. p. 79.
pl. 4.— Pl. Enl. 379. 982. 983.
Gambo Goofe, Will. Orn. pi, 71 f .
The GanTer, Albin. ii. pl.. 03.
Lev. Muf.
g I Z E of the common Goofe : length two feet three inches. The
bill two inches long, and red; noftrils dulky; tip black :
irides yellowilh white t eye-lids reddilh : on each fide of the
head a large rufous chefnut fpot, in the middle of which the
eyes are placed : the crown, and the reft of the head and throat,
are for the mod: part white, the lad: a little fpotted with chefnut:
the neck, for about two parts of its length, is pale chefnut, growing
of a much deeper colour at the lower part: the upper parts,
of the back and fcapulars are of a brownifh red, crofted with
numerous dulky lines : back and rump black: the lower part of
the neck before, the bread:, the fides, and thighs, very pale ru-
* Pl. Enl. 982, 983.— Willugbby'o figure likewife by no means anfwers to his
defcription of the bird.— See Orn. pl. 71. referred to by this author.
t This is plainly the Egyptian Goofe, though the index refers it to the Spur-
•winged; but in the lad the knobs are not of half the length of thofe of the firft,
nor are they lharp at the points.
16.
+- EGYPTIAN
G.
D escription.,