f 4 U'^ild Go'fe domcJltcaieLL — 'Negra iunung White. 



bablc, too, that the fuperahundant nutriment which is annu- 

 ally expended upon the horns, would, in that cafe, add to 

 the bulk of the body. 



THE WILD GOOSE DOMESTICATED. 



Attempts have frequently been made on Long-Ifland to 

 render the wild goofe, which winters in the bays adjoining 

 the Atlantic ocean, a tame and domcdicatcd bird. Indi- 

 \iduals of this fpecies have accordingly been catched alive by 

 the gunners after having been wing-broken by a (liot, and 

 carried home free from any other injury. When thus dif- 

 abled from flying,, they become gentle, and wdll mate wih 

 common gccfc. They even breed together ; but the offspring 

 is a mule, incapable of further propagation. Mr. Daniel 

 Coles, of Oyfler-bay, has gone a ilep beyond others in this 

 buiinefs. He has a wild-goofe and gander in a domellicated 

 ftatc, whom he keeps from flying away by taking off the ex- 

 treme bones of the wings at the joint. The goofe has laid 

 eggs and hatclicd a brood of goflings. For fear of lofnigthe 

 young one?, their wings have been treated in the fame man- 

 ner; and the whole family now compofes (September, 1800) 

 a beautiful flock of wild geefe in a domedicated ftate. They 

 «Te as gentle as common gcefc, and live upon the food ob- 

 tained about a houfe and on a farm quite as well. Mr. Coles 

 even found that the goflings, on the day of being hatched, 

 ate Indian meal as readily as chickens. They are more aftive 

 and handfome than the tame-goofe, and tlicir long necks are 

 arched more like thofe of fwans. If this experiment fliould 

 be continued for ft^veral gcnerati.i)ns, it is highly probable the 

 temper and habits of the breed maybe changed, fo that the 

 dcfcendants of thefe wild-geefe may lofe their inclination to 

 fly from country to country, and attach themfelves, like tur- 

 );ey9, ducks, and other birds whofe progenitors were once 

 \*j\\^y to the fociety and protc6tion of man. Should Mr. C, 

 meet with no difafters, it is not improbable that the wild- 

 goofe will be eventually added to our ftock of poultry. 



NEGRO TURNING WHITE. 



Tlie change of colour which Harry Mofs has within a few 

 ye;iy^ tmdergpne, from bkick to white, has been publiflicd fo 



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