1 20 NE W BE UNS WICK. 



Every five minutes may be seen a flock of geese or of 

 black duck, flying low for shelter, and wheeling round our 

 gunner in search of their comrades, who have gone before. 

 Bang, bang ! goes our friend's gun, and again and again 

 bang, bang ! for here the geese must come, and no amount 

 of shooting can drive them away. In such weather, and 

 in such a place, I have got through twenty-eight pounds 

 of shot in two days, and that with a muzzle-loader. 



Occasionally geese can be approached by moonlight on 

 their feeding grounds by a very skilfully handled canoe ; 

 but I have observed that a few shots at night do more to 

 frighten away the birds than as many hundred in the day- 

 time, and on this account it has been made illegal to shoot 

 wild fowl at night in Lower Canada. On very dark nights 

 the Indians sometimes chase the geese by torchlight. A 

 number of canoes, each with a blazing torch in the bow, 

 circle round a bay or inlet in which the geese are feeding, 

 surround them, and gradually edge them in to some little 

 creek surrounded by forest, where they are easily killed by 

 the poles and paddles of the cancers, and by the boys on 

 shore. The Canada goose is easily domesticated, and in 

 this state is invaluable to the sportsman as decoys. They 

 also seem to fraternize very well with the tame goose ; the 

 hybrid bird is very handsome and in every way superior 

 to the domestic goose. I have on one or two occasions 

 seen individuals of the white wild goose (A. Hyperboreus) 

 on the coast of New Brunswick, along with the Canadian 

 geese. 



Of sea ducks so called (Fuligulinse), and divers, there 

 are great numbers and many varieties, nearly all of them 

 migratory, on the coasts of New Brunswick. Although 



