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ANAS RUFICOLLIS. 
RED-BREASTED GOOSE. 
Black, beneath White ; bill small, conic ; 
neck rufous ; spot between the bill and 
eyes white. 
Anis ruficollis, Linn. Gme. 
L'oie a cou roux, Sonnini 
Red Breasted Goose, Pen. Lath, Mont. 
Red Breasted ; or, Siberian Goose, Bew. 
This species measures twenty one inches 
in length, and its extended wings three 
feet ten inches. 
Turton in his translation of Gmelin, says 
that the Red-breasted Goose inhabits Rus- 
sia and Northern Siberia, and migrates in 
winter towards Persia. 
Very few instances are recorded of its 
having been taken in this Country. Dr. 
Latham mentions one that was shot in the 
neighbourhood of London, in the begin- 
ning of the hard frost in 1 766 ; and ano- 
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