THE CANADA GOOSE. 



Anas Canadensis. 



THIS is the "bird known universally throughout this 

 continent, as the Wild-Goose, and yet, although that is 

 not in truth his correct apellation, we do not in this 

 instance very particularly demur to it ; since it is by 

 very far the most important of all the species of this 

 genus, which visit our shores". The term Wild-Goose is 

 properly applied to the Gray Lag' Goose of Europe, which 

 is beyond any doubt the stock whence is derived the 

 common domestic goose of our barn-yards, and which 

 precisely resembles the tame bird, with the exception 

 that the ganders do not become white among the wild 

 fowl ; on this, however, no distinction of origin can be 

 supported; for it is well understood that one of the con- 

 sequences of domestication, is that in the process of gen- 

 erations it converts animals, which are unicolored in their 

 natural state, to piebalds, dapples, and various new 

 colors, in their artificial condition. 



The true name of this bird is the Canada Goose ; a 

 title which was given to it under the impression that its 



