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swamps and water-sides, living and rearing its 

 young among the reeds and grasses. The tame 

 goose retains much of its wild nature and many of 

 its wild ways of acting. It is domesticated pri- 

 marily for its feathers. 



The domesticated duck is a Mallard. The wild 

 duck has a strong and peculiarly beautiful flight. 

 It summers in Greenland, Iceland, Lapland, and 

 Siberia, and winters in India, Egypt, and the Isth- 

 mian regions of America. 



The common domesticated swan is from the 

 mute swan of eastern Europe and western Asia. 

 It is spotless white, with a red bill and a black 

 knob on the end of the bill. 



The whistling swan inhabits Iceland, Lapland, 

 and northern Russia. It has a coiled windpipe, 

 and produces whistling or trumpeting tones. It 

 goes to the tropics in winter. 



The swans of the northern hemisphere are all 

 white, while those of the southern hemisphere are 

 more or less black, the Australian swan being jet 

 black. The black swan for a long time existed 

 only in rumor and vague report, and was gener- 

 ally supposed to be an impossibility. It is now 

 almost exterminated in the wild state, but is ex- 

 tensively domesticated in Australia. 



The canary bird is from the Canary Islands, 

 where it is found wild. It is a common house-bird 

 all over the world. The goldfinch and summer 

 warbler are often by ignorant people called ''wild 



