152 ANSERINJE. BERNICLA, CHENALOPEX. 
237. Bernicla ruficollts. Bed-necked Bernacle- 
Goose. 
Male twenty-three inches long; bill an inch and two* 
twelfths in length, brown, with the unguis black ; tarsus two 
inches and a quarter long, black ; a white patch between the 
bill and the eye ; behind the eye an oblong white space, 
haying a brownish-red patch in the middle, and extending 
narrowed down the side of the neck ; upper part of the head, 
hind-neck, and throat black ; fore part of neck brownish-red, 
with a transverse inferior black margin, succeeded by a white 
ring ; fore part of back, scapulars, and wings black, larger 
coverts tipped with white, fore part of breast black, feathers 
of the sides black, terminally edged with white ; the rest of 
the lower parts, and the rump white ; tail black, 
Male, 23, . . , . . , 2j, 1 A* 
This species occurs in Britain merely as a straggler, or 
accidental winter visitant. The first specimen mentioned 
was obtained near London, in 1776* and is in the Newcastle 
Museum ; another was caught near Wyclifle ; a third shot 
near Berwick-on-Tweed; and several were killed in 1813 in 
Cambridgeshire. M. Temminck states that it inhabits the 
northern countries of Asia, and is seldom seen in the western 
parts of Europe, 
Bed-breasted Goose. 
Anas ruficollis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 511. —Anas ruficollis, 
Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 841.— Anser ruficollis, Temm. Man. 
d’Ornith. ii. 826. — Anser ruficollis, Bed-necked Bernacle- 
Goose, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds. 
GENUS CXXII. CHENALOPEX. FOX-GOOSE. 
The birds of this genus are similar in form to the Geese, 
but with the bill somewhat more depressed toward the end, 
and less narrowed, with the nail more curved, the lamellae 
not apparent externally, the wings with a prominent rounded 
knob on the flexure, and the colours of the plumage more 
varied. Bill of nearly the same length as the head, stout, 
straight, subconical when viewed laterally, but when seen 
from above little narrower toward the end than at the base, 
where it is not much higher than broad; upper mandible 
with the basal margin thickened and fleshy, the ridge rather 
