spring. 



ANAS CANADENSIS. CANADA GOOSE. 



' Hawnk ! honk ! and for'ard to the nor'ard is the trumpet-tone ! 

 What goose can lag, or feather flag, or break the goodly cone ? 

 Hawnk ! onward to the cool blue lakes where lie our safe love-bowers, 

 No stop, no drop of ocean-brine, near stool or hassock hoary, 

 Our travelling watchword is ' our mates, our goslings, and our glory !' 

 Symsonia and Labrador for us are crowned with flowers, 

 And not a breast on wave shall rest, until that heaven is ours. 



Hawnk! Hawnk! Ee Hawnk!" 



ILD GEESE are widely spread over the 

 whole of the country; and there are 



? few portions of the United States where 

 the honking of the goose is not familiar 

 to the inhabitants. These fowl, in their 

 migrations south and north, are con- 

 sidered the sure harbingers of dreary 

 winter or the near approach of cheerful 



They breed in the remotest regions of the North, even 



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