80 



ANATIDE. 



AM r^ TO RES. 



ANATID/E. 



THE RED-BREASTED GOOSE. 



Anas rnJicolUs, Red-hreasted Goose, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 241. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



A user 



Anas 

 Anser 



Oie a cou roux. 



r> )t »> 



Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 297. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 128. 

 Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 275. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 225. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xvi. 

 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 826. 

 pt. iv. p. 522. 



But little is known of the habits of this beautiful species, 

 which appears to be very rare, except in the extreme northern 

 parts of Asia and Siberia, its migrations in summer extending 



