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THE RED-BREASTED GOOSE. 
BERN{CLA RUFICOLLIS (Pallas). 
This small and richly-coloured Goose is a very rare wanderer as 
far west as Great Britain, and almost all our authenticated specimens 
in existence have been obtained on the east side of the island. 
The first recorded occurrence is that of a bird shot near London 
early in 1776 during a severe frost, and now in the Museum of 
Newcastle-on-Tyne; while another, taken alive near Wycliffe in 
Yorkshire about the same time, lived until 1785. One, killed near 
Berwick-on-Tweed in 1818, is in the British Museum (Natural 
History); and a fine example sent from Maldon in Essex, on 
January 6th 1871, is in the possession of Mr. Wilfrid Marshall of 
Norton Manor, Taunton. Two are said to have been obtained in 
South Devon and one in Norfolk. There are other records, but 
unsubstantiated. 
During the summer the Red-breasted Goose inhabits those dis- 
tricts of Siberia which lie to the north of the limit of forest-growth 
in the valleys of the Ob and the Yenesei, and eastward to about 
long. 105°. In the former Dr. Finsch found it not uncommon; in 
1877 the late Mr. Seebohm secured a bird which had been shot from 
