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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