152 ANSERINE. BERNICLA. CHENALOPEX. 



237. BERNICLA RUFICOLLTS. RED-NECKED BERNACLE- 

 GOOSE. 



Male twenty-three inches long; bill an inch and two- 

 twelfths in length, brown, with the unguis black ; tarsus two 

 inches and a quarter long, black ; a white patch between the 

 bill and the eye ; behind the eye an oblong white space, 

 having a brownish-red patch in the middle, and extending 

 narrowed down the side of the neck ; upper part of the head, 

 hind-neck, and throat black ; fore part of neck brownish-red, 

 with a transverse inferior black margin, succeeded by a white 

 ring ; fore part of back, scapulars, and wings black, larger 

 coverts tipped with white, fore part of breast black, feathers 

 of the sides black, terminally edged with white ; the rest of 

 the lower parts, and the rump white ; tail black. 



Male, 23, ..,.., 1 T 2 *, 2 J, l^V, T V 



This species occurs in Britain merely as a straggler, or 

 accidental winter visitant. The first specimen mentioned 

 was obtained near London, in 1776, and is in the Newcastle 

 Museum ; another was caught near Wyclifle ; a third shot 

 near Berwick-on-Tweed; and several were killed in 1813 in 

 Cambridgeshire. M. Temminck states that it inhabits the 

 northern countries of Asia, and is seldom seen in the western 

 parts of Europe. 



Red-breasted Goose. 



Anas ruficollis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 511. Anas ruficollis, 

 Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 841. Anser ruficollis, Temm. Man. 

 d'Omith. ii. 826. Anser ruficollis, Red-necked Bernacle- 

 Goose, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds. 



GENUS CXXII. CHENALOPEX. FOX-GOOSE. 



The birds of this genus are similar in form to the Geese, 

 but with the bill somewhat more depressed toward the end, 

 and less narrowed, with the nail more curved, the lamellae 

 not apparent externally, the wings with a prominent rounded 

 knob on the flexure, and the colours of the plumage more 

 varied. Bill of nearly the same length as the head, stout, 

 straight, subconical when viewed laterally, but when seen 

 from above little narrower toward the end than at the base, 

 where it is not much higher than broad ; upper mandible 

 with the basal margin thickened and fleshy, the ridge rather 



