CHINESE AND RED-BREASTED GOOSE. 57i 



B. Chinese Goose. Anfer Cygnoides, Lin, Syj?. 194. 0. — Swan Goofe, fPll Oin. 3&0. 



— Rail. Sjn. av. 138. — BriJJin, vi. 280.— iflZ^izra, iii. — Lev. Mus. 



With a black bill, and a large protuberance at the bafe, biggefl 

 in the males : on the chin is a naked, pendulous, black fkin : from 

 the crown to the back a black line runs down the hind part of the 

 neck : the reft of the neck and breaft is of a cream-color, often dallied 

 ' with-vtawny : belly white : between the bafe of the bill and the eyes 

 is a white line : the back and wings deep grey : tail of the fame 

 color, with whitifli tips : legs red : in fome the bill is of the fame 

 color. In Length often reaches to three feet three. 



This fpecies is found wild about lake Baikal ; in the eaft of Sibiria ; Pt ace, 



and in Kamtfchatka, They are very commonly kept tame in moft 

 parts of the RmJ/i an empire. Will produce, with the Common Goofej 

 a breed which preferves an exa6l medium between both fpecies. As 

 . an exception to the remark that a mulifh race will not breed, thefe 

 frequently couple with one another, and with the genuine kind *. 

 They are frequent in China : are very ftately birdsj therefore are dig- 

 nified with the title of Swan Goofe^ 



C. Red-breasted Goose. Anfer ruficollis, Pallas Spicil. "Zool. fafc. vi. 21. tab. iv,— » 



Lev. Mus.— Bl. Mus. 



T^, With a fhort black bill ; a great patch of white between the bafe 

 and the eyes, bounded by black : crown, chin, hind part of the 

 head and neck, back, wings, and tail, of an intenfe black : fides mark- 

 ed with a few white fpots : greater coverts tipt with the fame color : 

 coverts of the tail white : lower part and fides of the neck of a bright 

 bay, bounded by a narrow line of white : the breaft and lower part of , 

 tjie neck divided from the belly and back by a circle of black and 



* Doctor Pallas, 



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