Although smaller than the Egyptian goose, it had more robust legs. This small sheldgoose had wings that were half black and half white. The bird may have descended from Egyptian geese that colonised the Mascarene Islands. In 1893, a wing-bone (depicted) and pelvis were attributed to a new species of comb duck, but later determined to belong to a relative of the Egyptian goose in Alopochen, a genus of sheldgeese. ![]() Accounts by visitors in the 17th century mentioned geese, with few details. The Mauritius sheldgoose ( Alopochen mauritiana) is an extinct sheldgoose that was endemic to Mauritius.
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