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coast of Hudson's Bay, and breeds on the peninsulas of 

 Melville and Boothia, and in the islands of the Arctic 

 Sea. It arrives among the latest of the water-fowl in 

 the fur countries in spring, and stays long in the autumn. 

 The last swans of the season passed over Fort Franklin, 

 lat. 64*J°N., on the 5th of October. 



Canada Goose. (Anser Canadensis.) F. B. A. 2. 



p. 468. 



The Canada goose, named "outarde" by the early 

 French travellers in the fur countries, and also by the 

 Canadian voyageurs of the present day, breeds sparingly 

 in the interior of the United States as low as the Ohio, 

 and in the state of Maine near the Atlantic coast. It 

 winters, Mr. Audubon tells us, in vast flocks in the 

 savannas of Florida and the Arkansas, and commences 

 its northward migration from the middle and western 

 districts with the first melting of the snows, that is, 

 between the 20th of March and the end of April. 

 Major Long informs us that the great migration of 

 sreese commences at Engineer Cantonment on the 

 Missouri (lat. 41J°.) on the 22nd of February, and 

 terminates in the latter end of March. The Canada 

 goose breeds in every part of the fur countries, but has 

 not been seen on the shores of the Arctic Sea. It arrives 

 in flocks when the snow melts, and soon afterwards 

 spreads over the country in pairs. The following table 

 of the ordinary dates of its arrival at particular places 

 gives a correct idea of the commencement of spring in 

 the different parallels. 



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