PAIR OF EMBDEN GEESE 
Breeders in northern Germany, particularly in Westphalia, are responsible for the production 
of this breed, which is rather more graceful than any other descendant of the gray lag. 
The creators of the Embden took advantage of the fact that the gray stock frequently 
gives rise to white sports, and by breeding from these sports produced a variety that rarely 
shows a return to the ancestral color. 
in the Roman times. 
(Fig. 12.) 
senseless conduct, but again obstinately 
carry off their offspring. An attempt 
has been made to explain such persist- 
ency on their part by the instinct of the 
geese to abandon waters which, accord- 
ing to a presentiment, will dry up in the 
course of the year; but it is more prob- 
able, I think, that the tendency to 
wander in these birds is caused by the 
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White geese were known as a distinct breed even 
Photograph from the United States Department of Agriculture. 
desire to find safer and less accessible 
spots for the moulting of the old birds. 
ADULT LIFE 
‘“When the goslings are fairly grown 
up and almost fully fledged, the old 
birds moult—the ganders somewhat the 
earlier, and after them the geese—and 
having simultaneously lost all their 
