CANADA GOOSE. 



(Anser canadensis, Vieill. Boxap. Synops. No. 318. Rich. North. 

 Zool. ii. p. 468. Canada Goose, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 471. 

 Wilson, viii. p, 53. pi. 67. fig. 4. The Canada Goose, Edwards. 

 pi. 151. Phil. Museum, No. 2704.) 



Sp. Charact. — Dark ash ; head, neck and tail black ; cheeks and 

 throat white; bill and feet black; tail consisting of 18 feathers. 



The common Wild Goose of America is known familiarly 

 in every part of the Union as a bird of passage to and from 

 it« breeding places in the interior and north of the conti- 

 nent. The arrival of this bird in the desolate fur countries 

 of Hudson's Bay is anxiously looked for, and hailed with 

 joy by the aborigines of the woody and swampy districts 

 which they frequent, and who depend principally upon it for 

 subsistence during the summer. They make their appear- 

 ance at first in flocks of 20 or 30, which are readily decoyed 

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