144 WILD GEESE 



Other American wild geese are the Cackling goose, a 

 bird very similar to the Canada goose, only smaller; the 

 Emperor goose; the three Snow geese, which are white 

 as the name indicates; the Blue goose; the American 

 White-fronted goose and the two Brant. All of these 

 birds breed in the North beyond the limits of the United 

 States, and comparatively little is known about the 

 breeding habits of some of them. 



Mr. Whealton says the Brant goose thrives in captivity 

 and he has never lost one by disease. Laying only in the 

 farthest North, no degree of cold found in our latitudes 

 affects them, while they endure our summers like tropical 

 fowl. 



The reader will find all of the geese pictured and de- 

 scribed in my book, "Our Feathered Game." Their dis- 

 tribution and migration is exhaustively discussed by Mr. 

 Wells W. Cooke in his bulletin, to which I have re- 

 ferred.* 



The geese, excepting the Canada goose, have not been 

 bred in preserves. 



* "Our Feathered Game." New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. Bulletin 

 26, Biological Survey, U. S. Dept. Agr. See also Eliot's "Wild Fowl of 

 North America." 



