ii 4 GOOSANDER 



nest, as many as thirty have been successively laid : their 

 colour a uniform buff white or creamy white. 



The female has been seen to carry her young on her 

 back, in the same way as described of the Swan. She 

 leads them to the water as soon as they are hatched, or 

 carries them thither in her bill if the nest has been in the 

 hollow of a tree, and at once commences their education. 



The males appear to leave the females when the latter 

 have begun to sit, and do not rejoin them till the summer is 

 over. 



