Goose. NATATORES. ANSER. 275 
tame, it eats readily all kinds of grain, as well as grass, and 
other vegetable diet. 
PiaTE 45. 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 ane j 
of breast black. On each side of the neck, about half 4 quit. 
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, Pall. 
PLATE XLVI. 
Anser ruficollis, Padi. Spic. 6. 21. t. 4.—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. pl. 43. 
Anas torquata, Gmel. Syst. 1. 514. sp. 70. 
Oie 4 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. Dict. 1.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 
p- t. 280. 
Red-breasted Bernicle, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 53. pl. 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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