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227. A. rufcollis, Pall. (Red-breasted Bernicle.) 

 Crown and throat black ; fore-neck and breast ferruginous ; 

 lore, and a double longitudinal line on the sides of the 

 neck, white. 



Anas ruficollis, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. 11. p. 826. Red-breasted 

 Goose, Mont. Orn. Diet. Sew. Brit. Birds, vol. u. p. 280. 

 Selb. Illust. vol. u. p. 275. pi. 46. 



DIMENS. Entire length twenty-one inches, MONT. 



DESCRIPT. Forehead, crown, list down the back of the neck, throat, 

 and a band extending upwards to the eyes, black: between the bill and 

 the eye, a large oval white spot ; behind the eye, and surrounding a large 

 patch of orange-brown on the side of the neck, a list of white, which is 

 further extended, and forms a line of division between the orange-brown 

 and black of the lower neck : fore part of the neck, and breast, fine 

 orange-brown; the latter margined lay a list of black, and another of 

 white ; a second bar of white immediately before the shoulders : back, 

 belly, quills and tail, black : abdomen, vent, thighs, upper and under 

 tail-coverts, pure white: greater wing-coverts black, edged with white: 

 bill reddish brown; the nail black: legs blackish brown, tinged with 

 red. SELB. (Egg.) Unknown. 



A very rare and accidental visitant in this country. According to 

 Montagu, one was shot near London in 1766, and another taken alive in 

 Yorkshire about the same time. Other specimens are stated to have 

 been killed in Cambridgeshire during the severe winter of 1813. It hast 

 also occurred in Norfolk. Inhabits the North of Asia, about the shores of 

 the Frozen Sea. Appears in Russia as a regular bird of passage. Said 

 to breed in the northern parts of that country. 



* 228. A. JEgyptiacus, Briss. (Egyptian Goose.) Forehead, crown, 

 and throat, white ; a large patch encircling the eyes, and another on the 

 breast, chestnut-red. 



Chenalopex ^gyptiaca, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. vol. xn. part 2. p. 43. 

 pi. 42. Egyptian Goose, Lath. Syn. vol. in. p. 453. Shaw, Nat. Misc. 

 vol. xv. pi. 605. Bcw. Brit. Birds, vol. u. p. 298. 



DIMENS. Entire length two feet three inches : length of the bill two inches. 

 LATH. 



DESCRIPT. (Male.) Forehead, crown, and throat, white; this last somewhat 

 spotted with chestnut : on the sides of the head, surrounding the eyes, a large patch 

 of chestnut-red : upper part of the neck pale chestnut, becoming deeper at bottom 

 where it unites with the back : this last, and scapulars, brownish red, with numerous 

 transverse undulating dusky lines : wing-coverts white ; the greater ones barred 

 with black near their tips : primary quills black, the first fiv entirely so, the rest 

 edged with glossy green : secondaries tinged with reddish bay, and edged with chest- 

 nut: lower back, rump and tail, black : middle of the belly white ; all the rest of 

 the under parts pale rufous ash, with narrow undulating dusky lines ; on the breast 

 a large deep chestnut-coloured spot : bill red, the tip black : eyelids red : irides 

 yellowish: legs red. (Female.) "Chestnut patch round the eye smaller: chin 

 white : the chestnut patch on the breast smaller, if not wholly wanting : lesser 



white, tinged with buff: long. diam. two inches nine lines; trans, diam. two 

 inches. 



A native of Egypt, and other parts of Africa. Has been introduced into this 

 country, and become partly naturalized in some places. A small flock is recorded 



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