•CANADA "GOO'S 2. 
more slender. It's bead, and neck, are black v 
or blackish, which [dirk colour sets off the 
white cravat that covers the throat. The 
prevailing cast of it's plumage is dull' brown; 
and, sometimes, grey. This Goose is, known 
in France by the name of the Canada Goose : 
it has even multiplied under domestication, and 
occurs in several of our provinces. Within, 
these few years, many hundreds inhabited the 
great canal at Versailles, where they lived fa- 
miliarly with the Swans : they were oftener on 
the grassy margins, than in, the water. There 
is, at present, a great number of them on the 
magnificent pools that decorate the charming 
gardens of Chantilly. They have also multi- 
plied in Germany, and in England. This beauti- 
ful species may be view 7 ed as forming the inter- 
mediategradation between the Swan and Goose, 
These Cravated Geese," remarks BufFoiv 
" migrate southwards in America; for they 
appear during winter in Carolina: and Eel- 
wards relates that, in the spring, they pass in 
flocks to Canada, and thence return. to Hud- 
son's Bav, and the other more northern parts 
•of America. It breeds in Hudson's Bay, and 
