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BERNICLA RUFICOLLIS. THE RED-NECKED 

 BERN1CLE-GOOSE. 



RED-BREASTED BERNICLE. 



Anas ruficollis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 511. 



Anas ruficollis. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 841. 



Red -breasted Goose, Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Oie a. cou ronx. Anas ruficollis. Temm. Man. d'Ornith. II. 826. 



Red-breasted Goose. Anser ruficollis. Selb. Illustr. II. 275. 



Anser ruficollis. Red-breasted Bernicle. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 225. 



Bernicla ruficollis. Bonap. Comp. List, 56. 



Male twenty-two inches long ; bill small, an inch and a 

 fourth in length, reddish-brown, with the unguis black ; tarsus 

 two inches and a half in length, brownish-black ; throat, upper 

 part of the head, and a narrow band down the neck behind, 

 black ; a patch between the bill and the eye, behind the latter 

 a large oblong space, enclosing a brownish-red patch, and 

 becoming narrow along the neck, white ; fore-neck brownish- 

 red, margined below icith a narrow band of black, which is 

 succeeded by a white ring; breast black; sides banded with 

 black and white ; the rest of the lower parts and the rump 

 white ; upper parts brownish-black ; the larger wing-coverts 

 tipped with white. 



Male. — This beautiful bird, which is somewhat inferior 

 in size to the Black -faced Bernicle, but similar in form, has 

 occurred so seldom in Britain, that I have not seen an indivi- 

 dual obtained there. The body is full, as in the other species ; 

 the neck long and rather slender at its upper part ; the head 

 small, oblong, compressed, arched above. 



The bill is much shorter than the head, of greater height 

 than breadth at the base, somewhat conical, at the end a little 

 depressed ; the upper mandible with the dorsal line straight 



