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ORD. III. GEN. X. GOOSE. 



SPE. IV. RED-BREASTED GOOSE. 

 PL 242. 



This is the moft beautiful of the genus, with which we are acquainted, and 

 the fmalleft, its weight being about three pounds only. The bill is very fhort, 

 and of a dull orange colour; the nail, black : the eyes are orange: top of the 

 head, and hind part of the neck, black : between the beak and eye, a large 

 fpot of white : from the eye a black band paffes round the throat : the neck, 

 and bread, are of a red brown colour : round the breaft is a line of black fea- 

 thers, with white ends : the back and wings are a blackith brown : the greater 

 wing coverts, edged with grey : the belly, black, with broad white edges to 

 the upper feathers next the wings : vent, white : legs, black : the wings, when 

 clofed, are of the fame length as the tail. 



It is an inhabitant of the northern parts of Europe, particularly Ruffia, and 

 is very rarely met with in Great Britain. 



