24 WATER FOWL OF INDIA AND ASIA. 
both on land and water, than the Gray, our only 
other common Goose, walking more easily and sitting 
higher in the water. It is according to Hume less 
tameable than that species, and does not stand the 
heat of the Indian summer so well, if kept in captivity, 
though this has not been my experience with this 
species at the Calcutta Zoological Gardens, where it 
certainly kept its condition perfectly. 
The Red-breasted Goose. 
Branta ruficollis, SALVADORI, Brit. Mus. Cat., 
Birds, Vol. XXVII. 
VERNACULAR NAMES.—Shakvoy, in Siberia. 
This beautiful little Goose has never been actually 
obtained in India, but it has been seen by so good an 
observer as Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker, and it is a very 
unmistakable bird, so I follow him in admitting it to 
our list. 
It is a small bird for a Goose, not bigger than a 
large Duck and has a remarkably small delicate-looking 
bill for its size; the neck-feathering is not ridged or 
pleated. 
The plumage is mostly black, with the front of the 
neck, and the breast, bright chestnut. There is a chest- 
nut spot on the sides of the head, bordered with white, 
which white runs down the side of the neck. There is 
also a white patch between eye and bill; the flanks are 
barred black and white, and the belly and feathers at 
base of tail all white. The young birds are brown 
instead of black, and have the red of the neck and breast 
much paler, and the red patch on the sides of the 
head replaced by brown. The legs, bill, and eyes are 
all dark. This bird is about twenty-two inches long 
with the bill only about an inch, shank about two inches, 
and closed wing about fourteen inches. Conspicuous in 
