RED-BREASTED GOOSE. 



BERNICLA RUFICOLLIS {Pall.). 



Anser ruficollis, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. fasc. vi. p. 21, tab. v. 



(1769); Naum. xi. p. 408. 

 Bernicla ruficollis, Macg. iv. p. 634; Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 281 ; 



Dresser, vi. p. 403. 



Bernache a cou roux, French; Rothhals-Gans, German. 



As I can add nothing from personal experience to the 

 history of this very handsome bird, I will only state 

 that it is a rare straggler to Europe from its breeding- 

 haunts in North-western Siberia ; it is said to visit the 

 Caspian in enormous flocks during the winter months. 

 There appears to be about seven authentic records of 

 the occurrence of this Goose in our Islands, besides 

 several that require confirmation. The latest quoted as 

 satisfactorily proven by the editor of the 4th edition of 

 ' Yarrell,' was sent from Maldon in January 1871, and 

 was in the collection of Mr. John Marshall, of Taunton. 

 I have a skin of this species, labelled by the late 

 S. Stafford Allen "Alexandria, December 2nd, 1874"; 

 but although it is represented in some of the most 



