THE TOULOUSE GOOSE 
This popular old French breed shows, except in shape, relatively slight differences from its 
ancestor, the wild lag. 
It has become considerably less graceful, due to the demand of 
its growers for as much meat as possible; on the average, it weighs probably twice as much 
as the wild form. The small amount of change in the color pattern is particularly notice- 
able. 
open fields or along country roads, past 
mills, and even through settlements, 
so that, in such apparently aimless 
wanderings, the young often perish 
from the assaults of rapacious foes, or 
Photograph of a male, from the United States Department of Agriculture. 
(Fig. 11.) 
simply from the hardships of the 
journey. Evenif the goslings are caught 
and reinstated several times on the 
waters whence the parents had taken 
them, the latter do not abandon their 
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