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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 I 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 V 

 Symsonia and Labrador for us are crowned with flowers. 

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



Hawnk! Hawnk! E—e 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 

 tb 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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