BRITISH BIRDS. 



THE RED-BREASTED GOOSE. 



SIBERIAN GOOSE. 



Ruficollis, Temm. Oic a COIL roiix, femm. 



MEASURES above twenty inches in length, and 

 three feet ten in breadth. The bill is short, of a 

 brown colour, with the nail black: irides yellowish 

 hazel : cheeks and brow dusky, speckled with 

 white: a white spot occupies the space between 

 the bill and the eyes, with a black stripe beneath 

 it, and is bounded above, on each side of the head, 

 by a black line which falls down the hinder part of 

 the neck towards the back: the chin, throat, and 

 crown of the head are also black: two stripes of 

 white fall down from behind each eye, on the sides 



