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tame, it eats readily all kinds of grain, as well as grass, and 

 other vegetable diet. 



PLATE 4>5. represents this bird of the natural size. 



Bill black. Irides brown. Legs and feet black, with a General 

 tinge of reddish-brown. Head, neck, and upper part tion. np 

 of breast black. On each side of the neck, about half Adult. 

 way down, is a patch of white. Back, scapulars, and 

 wing-coverts, clove-brown; the feathers having their 

 tips and margins paler. Under parts of the body french- 

 grey ; with the feathers margined paler. Vent, upper 

 and under tail-coverts, white. Lower part of back, and 

 rump, black. Quills and tail black. 

 The female is less than the male bird, but similar in plu- 

 mage. 



The young of the year have not the white patch upon the Young, 

 neck ; and this part, the head, and upper part of the 

 breast, are blackish-grey. The back and wing-coverts 

 are tipped with brown ; and the legs are paler, or more 

 inclining to brown than in the older birds. 



RED-BREASTED GOOSE. 



ANSER RUFICOLLIS f Pall. 

 PLATE XLVI. 



Anser ruficollis, Pall. Spic. 6. 21. t. b.Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 128. 



Anas ruficollis, Gmel. Syst. 1. 511 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 841. sp. 23. 



Bernicla ruficollis, Steph. Shaw's ZooL 12. 53. pi. 43. 



Anas torquata, Gmel. Syst. 1. 514. sp. 70. 



Oie a Cou roux, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. 826. 



Die rothals Gans, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 916 Meyer, Tasschenb. 2. 561. 



Red-breasted Goose, Penn. Arct. ZooL 2. 571. Lath. Syst. 6. 455. Lewin's 



Br. Birds, 7. pL 241. Mont. Orn. Diet 1 Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 



p. t. 280. 

 Red-breasted Bernicle, Steph. Shaw's ZooL 12. 53. pi. 43. 



IN this beautiful species the bill is very short, being much 

 less than that of the Bernicle ; but as it seems, as far as I 



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