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cana, 1831, speaks of its arrival in the fur countries as " hailed 

 with great joy by the natives of the woody and swampy dis- 

 tricts, who depend principally upon it for subsistence during 

 the summer. . . . One goose, which when fat weighs about nine 

 pounds, is the daily ration for one of the Company's servants 

 during the season 5< and is reckoned equivalent to two snow- 

 geese, or three ducks, or eight pounds of buffalo and moose 

 meat, or two pounds of pemmican, or a pint of maize and four 

 ounces of suet." 



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In appendix to Townsend's Narrative of Journey Across 

 Kocky Mountains, etc., 1839, it is BLACK-HEADED GOOSE ; and 

 some writers have termed it CANADA BRANT; and in England 

 it has been called the CRAVAT GOOSE (Buffon's L Oie a cravate). 

 Yarrell speaks of its being entitled 'to a place in his British 

 Birds, specimens being so frequently shot " which do not exhibit 

 either in their actions or plumage any signs of having escaped 

 from confinement." 



