. A natural history of the ducks . n the western parts. Inthe east the species has been recorded from Port St. John (Shortridge, 1904), from Aliwal North ( T. Whitehead, 1903) and from King Williams Town, where it is said to be rare (Trevelyan, fideStark and Sclater, 1906). As one goes west the species occurs more frequently. Layard (1875-84)has recorded it from Knysna and from the Gouritz River, as well as from other coastal localities suchas Caledon, Pearl and Piquetberg. Sclater (Ibis, ser. 8, vol. 4, p. 86, 1904) found the birds not un-common in Saldanha Bay. In the interior, specimens
. A natural history of the ducks . n the western parts. Inthe east the species has been recorded from Port St. John (Shortridge, 1904), from Aliwal North ( T. Whitehead, 1903) and from King Williams Town, where it is said to be rare (Trevelyan, fideStark and Sclater, 1906). As one goes west the species occurs more frequently. Layard (1875-84)has recorded it from Knysna and from the Gouritz River, as well as from other coastal localities suchas Caledon, Pearl and Piquetberg. Sclater (Ibis, ser. 8, vol. 4, p. 86, 1904) found the birds not un-common in Saldanha Bay. In the interior, specimens have been met with near Fraserburg (Burchell,1822-24), and near Carnavon (Littledale, 1908), as well as on the Orange River at Upington (Brad-shaw, fide Stark and Sclater, 1906) and on the Kuruman River in Bechuanaland (Burchell, 1822-24).Howard (fide Stark and Sclater, 1906) has reported the species from the mouth of the Orange Egyptian Goose breeds throughout South Africa, as it does in almost every part of its Map 20. Distribution of Egyptian Goose (Alopochen cegyptiacus) EGYPTIAN GOOSE 191 In German Southwest Africa this species is said to be a common resident in the south and centralparts (Andersson, 1872), which is remarkable considering the nature of the country. It is hardlylikely that any are to be found in the great Kalahari Desert (Bechuana Protectorate), Southwestbut though Andersson (1872) does not mention seeing the species on Lake Ngami it un- Africadoubtedly frequents the salt pans of the Okawango Basin, and has been recorded from Victoria Fallson the Upper Zambesi (Sclater, Ibis, ser. 8, vol. 5, p. 109, 1905). From Portuguese West Africa thereare records only for the southeast, where the species appears to be common on the Cunene River,having been taken at Humbe and Coroca (Barboza de Bocage, 1877-81). Though not Westrecorded from other parts of this Colony, I am inclined to believe that the species in- Africahabits every part of the regions
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