144 AMERICAN GAME. 
by the Canada Goose, on the breaking up of the ice in 
spring, and again at the setting in of winter, the Brent 
‘Goose is unknown both to the Indians and to the white 
settlers ; nor are they known about the yet more north- 
erly forts of the Hudson’s Bay Company—short of the 
Bay itself, where they abound—who regard the Canada 
Goose as one of the principal, if not the chief article of 
their subsistence. ~ 
The breeding place of the Brent Goose is very far to 
the north, though not so far as that of the Wild-Goose, 
which is supposed, not without reason, to rear its young 
and pass the brief*days of summer of the Arctic Circle 
in the regions of the Pole itself, while the Brent has been 
found on its nests in Labrador, to the northward of Hud- 
son’s Bay and in Boothia Felix. Here, fearless of the 
ambushed gun, and the murderous battery, it revels dur- 
ing a few short months in those to it delightful solitudes, 
occupied with the charms of love, and the cares of rear- 
ing its young. It does not, however, tarry long in its 
northern asylum, as it is usually looked for in the Long 
Island waters, and at Barnegat, Egg Harbor, and other 
shooting stations on the Jersey coast, early in October, 
and has been seen so early as the 20th of September. Its 
* stay in these places is uncertain, depending very much on 
the nature of the season, often remaining, if it be open 
weather, during nearly the whole of the winter, while 
on the contrary, if the bays are frozen early, it at once 
towers aloft and takes its way southward. It seems, how. 
