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BRITISH BIRDS. 



THE TAME GOOSK. 

 (A /HIS . I user, Linn. L'Oic doincsh'quc, Buff. 



To describe the varied plumage and the economy 

 of this well-known valuable domestic fowl, may 

 seem to many a needless task; but to others, unac- 

 quainted with rural affairs, it may be interesting. 

 Their predominant colours are white and grey, 

 with shades of ash blue, and brown: some of them 

 are yellowish, others dusky, and many are found to 

 differ very little in appearance from the wild kind 

 before described the original stock whence, in 

 early times, they were all derived. The grey ones 

 agree in every respect with those of the wild kind, 

 except in size, and colour of the feet. They are 

 generally furnished with a small tuft on the head : 

 and the most usual colour of the males (Gander or 

 vSteg) is pure white : the bills and feet in both males 



