1190 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



V Hong Kong Gteese. 



The Hong Kong, or gray China goose, is supposed to be the variety 

 from which the White Chinese goose sprung. Certainly, there are not 

 greater differences between the two than between the Embden and 

 Toulouse. The Hong Kong is distinctly knobbed, and in size is between 

 a goose and swan. Their distinguishing marks are the knob on he top 

 of the head, the feathered dewlaps or wattle under the throat, and dis- 

 tinct dark stripe do^vll the neck. They vary in color, but the true color 



GROUP OF WHITE PEKIN DUCKS. 



is a grayish brown on the back and upper parts of the body, changing to 

 white or whitish gray under the al)donien ; the neck and breast yeUowish 

 gray, with a distinguishing stripe of dark brown running down the 

 back of the neck from the head to the body ; the bill and legs are 

 orange, and the protuberances at the base of the lower bill very dark, 

 approaching to black. They are nocturnal in habit, very prolific in eggs, 

 and the flesh of the young birds is superior in quality. 



