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Title: The birds of Europe
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author
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e market to resort to various contrivances to effect their object, for an account of which we beg to refer our readers to Colonel Hawkers Instructions to young Sportsmen, an amusing treatise, where a full description is given of this kind of sporting. They breed and rear their young in the security of high northern latitudes; the nest being formed of various vegetable materials, and the eggs, which are white, being ten or twelve in number. The male has the head, neck, and upper part of the breast black; on each side of the neck a patch of white; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts brown, each feather being margined with paler brown; under surface dark grey, each feather margined with paler grey; vent and upper and under tail-coverts white; lower part of the back, the rump, quills, and tail black; bill black; irides brown; legs and feet brownish black. The female resembles the male in colour, but is not quite so large. Our Plate represents an adult male rather less than the natural size.
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^ gft J* m 6 Genus CHENALOPEX, Antiq. Gen. Char. Beak as long as the head, slender, straight, its tip rounded, the margin laminated; the upper mandible curved, its tip hooked; the lower mandible flat. Nostrils placed at the basal portion of the beak. Wings armed with spurs. Legs placed in the equilibrium of the body, four-toed; the anterior toes entirely webbed, the hinder one simple; tarsi somewhat elongated. EGYPTIAN GOOSE. Chenalopex Egyptiaca, Steph.L Oie dEgypte. On comparing the present species with the other members of its family, it will be found to differ in form from every one of them, on which account it has been formed by Mr. Stephens into a distinct genus, to which he has been induced to give the above generic title, in consequence of this bird being in the opinion of M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire the Chenalopex or Vulpanser of the ancients. In figuring this fine species of Goose as a member of the European Fauna, we are not instigated by the occurrence of numerous half-reclaimed in

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