156 RARE VISITANTS. 



KED-BBEASTED GOOSE. Anser ruficollis, Pallas. 

 Hob. Northern Asia and Siberia. 



One near London, winter 1766*: Montagu (fide Latham), 



Orn. Diet. 

 One near Wycliffe, Yorkshire, about the same time : Bewick, 



Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 280; Selby, 111. Brit. Orn. vol. ii. 



p. 276. 

 One, Halvergate, Norfolk, 1805 : Stacey, Hist. Norf. vol. i. 



p. Ixii; Sheppard and Whitear, Cat. Norfolk and Suffolk 



Birds, p. 55. 

 One or more, Cambridgeshire, winter 1813 : Stephens, Shaw's 



Zoology, vol. xii. p. 53, pi. 43. 

 One near Berwick-on-Tweed, 1818 : Fleming, Hist. Brit. An. 



p. 128. 

 One, Kenton Warren, Devonshire, 1828 : Moore, Cat. Birds 



Devon, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837, p. 360. 

 One, Ireland, prior to March 1833 : Thompson, Nat. Hist. 



Irel. (Birds), vol. iii. p. 64. 



One, Teign Marshes, Devon, 1st Feb. 1837 : Moore, /. c. 

 Two seen on the Tees, Durham, "of late" (1845) : Hogg, 



Cat. Birds S.E. Durham, p. 31. 

 One shot in Cowpen Marsh, Durham, about the same time : 



Hogg, /. c. 

 One seen, Loch Strathbeg, " some years ago " (1852) : Mac- 



gillivray, Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. iv. p. 636. 

 One, Maldon, Essex, 6th Jan. 1871: Poole, The Field, 



21st Jan. 1871; Harting, Zoologist, 1871, p. 2513. I 



purchased this bird a few days after it was shot. It is 



now in the collection of Mr. Marshall, of Taunton. 



Obs. In addition to the above-mentioned occur- 

 rences, the Red-breasted Goose is included in the 



* According to Fox (Synops. Newcastle Mus.), this date should 

 be 1776. 



