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Anfer ruficoliis, PalL Spic. vi. p. 21. t. 4. 17. 



Red-breafted Goofe, Ard. Zool, p. 571. C. RED-BREASTED 



Le-v. Muf. G - 



CIZEofthe Canada Goofe; length twenty-one inches : breadth Description. 



three feet ten inches : weight three pounds troy. Bill final 1, 

 brown ; nail black : irides yellow brown : round the eyes fringed 

 with brown : fore part of the head, and crown, black, paffing 

 backwards in a narrow ftripe quite to the back : forehead and 

 cheeks fprinkled with white : between the bill and eye an oval 

 large fpot of white, feparated from the white of the forehead by 

 a line of black : chin and throat black: behind the eye white, 

 paffing down on each fide the neck, and ending in a point; the 

 middle of this white is rufous; the reft of the neck deep rufous: 

 on the breaft is a narrow band of white feathers with black ends, 

 forming a band of white and another of black: belly white: 

 fides ftriped with black : back and wings black, the laft even 

 with the tail : greater wing coverts tipped with grey : upper and 

 under tail coverts white : legs black. 



This is a moft elegant fpecies, and breeds in the northern Place and 

 parts of Rujta, from the river Ob to the Lena ; retires Jouth in 

 autumn. Frequents the Cajpan Sea, from whence it returns to 

 the north in fmall flocks as the fummer comes on *. Suppofed 

 to winter in Perjia. One of thefe was fhot near London in the be- 

 ginning of the fevere froft of the year 1766 : another taken alive 

 in Tork/bire, near Wydiffe, about the fame time ; this foon became 

 very tame and familiar, was kept among other Ducks in a pond ; 



* Dec, Rnjf. ii. p. %g. 



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