68 AMERICAN GAME. 
brown, margined with paler brown ; lower part of neck, 
breast, and belly, whitish-gray; flanks, darker gray ; 
cheeks and throat, upper and under tail-coverts, white ; 
the plumage of the female rather duller. 
Such, reader, is our Canada Goose, or American Wild 
Goose, a game, bold bird in air and on water, a grand 
bird on the board. Mine may it be, in both capacities, 
to meet him soon and often, but especially at sunrise, 
from the lee of some sheltered hassock to be greeted 
with his resonant “ Aw-unk! E-e—aw-unk !” : 
