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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE RED-BREASTED GOOSE. BERNfcLA rufic6llis (Pallas). This small and richly-coloured Goose is a very rare wanderer as far west as Great Britain, and almost all our authenticated specimens in existence have been obtained on the east side of the island. The first recorded occurrence is that of a bird shot near London early in 1776 during a severe frost, and now in the Museum of Newcastle-on-Tyne; while another, taken alive near Wycliffe in Yorkshire about the same time, lived until 1785. One, killed near Berwick-on-Tweed in 1818, is in the British Museum (Natural History); and a fine example sent from Maldon in Essex, on January 6th 1871, is in the possession of Mr. Wilfrid Marshall of Norton Manor, Taunton. Two are said to have been obtained in South Devon and one in Norfolk. There are other records, but unsubstantiated. During the summer the Red-breasted Goose inhabits those dis- tricts of Siberia which lie to the north of the limit of forest-growth in the valleys of the Ob and the Yenesei, and eastward to about long. 105°. In the former Dr. Finsch found it not uncommon ; in 1877 the late Mr. Seebohm secured a bird which had been shot from

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