68 AMEKICAN GAME. 



brown, margined with paler brown ; lower part of neck, 

 breast, and belly, whitish-gray ; flanks, darker gray ; 

 cheeks and throat, upper and under tail-coverts, white ; 

 the plumage of the female rather duller. 



Such, reader, is our Canada Goose, or American Wild 

 Goose, a game, bold bird in air and on water, a grand 

 bird on the board. Mine may it be, in both capacities, 

 to meet him soon -and often, but especially at sunrise, 

 from the lee of some sheltered hassock to be greeted 

 with his resonant " Aw-unk ! E-e aw-unk !" 



