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our game, but will greatly increase it. Let every one 

 join the ranks of those who are striving to save game 

 birds from the fate of the buffalo and the passenger 

 pigeon." 



The Canada goose breeds in the North, and the prin- 

 cipal breeding ground seems to be the region referred to 

 as the "ducks' paradise." 



Mr. Cooke, who is an authority on the migration of 

 birds, says the principal summer home of the Canada 

 goose is the interior of Canada, from Saskatchewan and 

 Alberta north to the limit of trees. Eastwardly it breeds 

 commonly in the interior of Ungava and rarely on the 

 coast as far north as Okak and Ungava Bay. It is not 

 a rare breeder in Newfoundland, and is fairly common 

 on the islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and thence 

 west through Quebec and Northern Ontario to the south- 

 ern end of James Bay. Any occurrences south of this 

 district must be considered accidental or casual, though 

 it has been recorded as nesting at Lexington, Mass., April, 

 1888, and once at Hartland, Vt. 



In the interior of North America the breeding range 

 extends somewhat farther south. A hundred years ago 

 the species bred commonly in all the northern third of 

 the Mississippi Valley and not uncommonly to the lati- 

 tude of St. Louis. Now the number of pairs breeding 

 south of the latitude of central Iowa is very small, though 

 even of late years the Canada goose has been known to 

 breed at Samburg and at Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, which 

 seem to be the most southern localities known east of the 

 Rocky Mountains. A few breed in Kentucky, and the 

 number increases slightly in Indiana and Illinois and the 

 southern third of Michigan and Wisconsin. North of this 



