248 PRAIRIE AND FOREST. 



ring around the throat, immediately behind the junc- 

 tion with the head. Its average weight is about 

 twelve pounds. 



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, their favourite breeding-places being 

 upon the marshes and lakes, from whence flow the 

 rivers that enter the Polar Seas. Consequently they 

 are not to be found upon the popular shooting- 



CANADA GOOSE. 



grounds or waters of the United States and Canada 

 until severe weather has set in over the Hudson Bay 

 territory, when they migrate in thousands south, either 

 following the coast-line or the course of rivers flowing 

 from north to south. 



On the Chesapeake Bay and the various inlets 

 along the coast of Virginia and North Carolina, I have 

 seen them in great numbers ; still the wet prairies of 

 the west exceed all other localities in the immensity of 

 hordes that visit them. 



