RED-BREASTED GOOSE. 



AN SERES. 



281- 

 ANATID^E. 



Bernicla ruficollis (Pallas*). 



THE RED-BKEASTED GOOSE. 



Anser ruficollis. 



Bernicla, Boie\.—B\\\ much shorter than the head, sub-conical, higher than 

 broad at the base, narrowing to the end ; unguis, broadly ovate ; edges of the 

 bill nearly straight, scarcely showing the margins of the lamelte ; nostrils oval, 

 placed in the anterior portion of the nasal depression, near the centre of the bill. 

 Feathers on the neck narrow, blended. Wings large, the second quill usually 

 the longest. Tail short, rounded. Legs short, stout ; the tarsus reticulate ; the 

 three anterior toes long, united by a membrane, bind toe small, elevated ; claws 

 small, that on the middle toe broadly rounded. 



This beautiful species is an inhabitant of Siberia, and 

 occasionally wanders on migration as far as the British 



* Anser ruficoJUs, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. vl. p. 21, tav. v. (1769). 



f Isis, 1822, p. 563. This genus has been generally allowed to include the 

 present species, and the Editor accepts the arrangement to avoid the multiplication 

 of genera, but he does not consider it at all satisfactory. 



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