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the parents brought to the boxes to be fed. When they were full-grown and 

 the parents had gone about raising a second brood, this one was found one 

 day with his left wing hanging and all but useless. To save him from the cats 

 I tried to catch him, but he managed to elude me by volplaning from one 

 bush to another. By degrees the injured wing became more serviceable, and 

 now is nearly normal, having only a slight drop, and the bird flies as well as ever. 



CANADA GEESE 

 Photographed by Francis Harper, at Gardiner's Island, N. Y., April 5, igi2. 



