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pleasurable, that I feel convinced it never will be forgotten. 

 In fact, I regard it as one of those episodes that give an 

 ample reward to the sportsman for weeks, yes months, of 

 lack of success and wasted toil. 



CANADA GOOSE. 



The Canada goose is a magnificent bird, and although 

 smaller than that of Europe, occupies the same place to 

 the New World that the common wild goose does to the 

 Old. The plumage is of a dark slate colour along the 

 neck, breast, and stomach, gradually becoming black 

 toward the back and wing coverts ; the head, also, is black, 

 with a clear white ring around the throat, immediately 

 behind the junction with the head. Its average weight is 

 about twelve pounds. 



CANADA GOOSE. 



From 35 degrees of north latitude, the Canada goose is 

 found in greater or less numbers, according to season and 

 the closeness of settlements, to beyond the Arctic circle, 



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