THE CANADA GOOSE. 
Anas .Canadensis. 
Tus is the bird known universally throughout this 
continent, as the Wild-Goose, and yet, although that is 
not in truth his correct apellation, we do not in this 
instance very particularly demur to it; since it is by 
very far the most important of all the species of this 
genus, which visit our shores. The term Wild-Goose is 
properly applied to the Gray Lag Goose of Europe, which 
is beyond any doubt the stock whence is derived the 
common domestic goose of our barn-yards, and which 
precisely resembles the tame bird, with the exception 
that the ganders do not become white among the wild 
fowl; on this, however, no distinction of origin can be 
supported; for it is well understood that one of the con- 
sequences of domestication, is that in the process of gen- 
erations it converts animals, which are unicolored in their 
natural state, to piebalds, dapples, and various new 
colors, in their artificial condition. 
The true name of this bird is the Canada Goose; a 
title which was given to it under the impression that its 
