. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . zsi RED-BREASTED GOOSE. 37 NATATORES. ANATIDJE. PLATE CCXXXIV. RED-BREASTED GOOSE. ANSER RUFICOLLIS. The Red-breasted Goose is a very rare occasional visitantin Great Britain; it was noticed by Montagu and Bewick,and has occurred since in several instances, but only as soli-tary individuals, which seems to denote their being strag-glers. On the continent of Europe this bird has been observed underthe same circumstances, one individual having been capturedat a time in Belgium, one in France, and also single speci-mens in sever
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . zsi RED-BREASTED GOOSE. 37 NATATORES. ANATIDJE. PLATE CCXXXIV. RED-BREASTED GOOSE. ANSER RUFICOLLIS. The Red-breasted Goose is a very rare occasional visitantin Great Britain; it was noticed by Montagu and Bewick,and has occurred since in several instances, but only as soli-tary individuals, which seems to denote their being strag-glers. On the continent of Europe this bird has been observed underthe same circumstances, one individual having been capturedat a time in Belgium, one in France, and also single speci-mens in several different parts of the coast along the GermanOcean. Temminck remarks, that the specimens thus obtainedmust have escaped from captivity ; but, without wishing todispute the possibility of it, we consider it improbable thatat least twenty known specimens of this kind should haveso escaped, while there is no collection in Europe on recordwhere there has ever been an individual alive, with the ex-ception of one that was captured alive in 1766, in Yorkshire,and kept for
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