Note 20 — Chapter VIII · DUCK—GOOSE—PEACOCK—TURKEY—GUINEA-FOWL—CANARY-BIRD—GOLD-FISH—RIVER-BEES—SILK-MOTHS.
Reading edition
‘Ceylon,’ by Sir J. E. Tennent, 1859, vol. i. p. 485; also J. Crawfurd on the ‘Relation of Domest. Animals to Civilisation,’ read before Brit. Assoc. 1860. See also ‘Ornamental Poultry,’ by Rev. E. S. Dixon, 1848, p. 132. The goose figured on the Egyptian monuments seems to have been the Red goose of Egypt.