The Spur-winged Goose, Plectropterus gambensis, is a large Africanbird in the family Anatidae, related to the geese and the shelducks, but distinct from both of these in a number of anatomical features, and therefore treated in its own subfamily, the Plectropterinae. It occurs in wetlands throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
The scaups apparently take a higher proportion of animal food than the other species of the pochard tribe.
PERCI-IING DUCKS This very peculiar group of ducks had already been separated by Salvadori, as a subfamily (Plectropterinae), and, in our opinion, it was a mistake of modern authors to remove from it the Mandarin ("Den- dronessa" galericulata) and the Carolina Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) and place them among the river ducks.
In their general proportions and 0 The Southern Pochard has a curious distribution in East and South Africa and in South America, where it is currently stated to inhabit only the northwestern parts.
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