CANADA GOOSE 



/^F THE millions of migrants that stream 

 ^^ across the sky every spring and autumn, 

 none attract so much attention as the wild 

 geese. How their mellow honk, honk thrills 

 one when the birds pass Hke ships in the night! 

 Such big, strong, rapid flyers have little to fear 

 in travelling by daylight too, but gunners have 

 taught them the wisdom of keeping up so high 

 that they look like mere specks. It must be 

 a very duU child without imagination, who is 

 not stirred by the flight of birds that are 

 launched on a joimiey of at least two thousand 

 miles. Don't you wish you were as familiar 

 with the map as these migrants must be? 

 Usually geese travel in a wedge-shaped flock, 

 headed by some old, experienced leader; but 

 sometimes, with their long necks outstretched, 

 they follow one another in Indian file and shoot 

 across the clouds as straight as an arrow. 



Geese spend much more time on land than 

 ducks do. If you will study the habits of the 

 common barnyard goose you will learn many 

 of the ways of its wild relations that nest too 

 far north to be watched by "every child." 

 fanada geese that have been wounded by 



