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the<*£ wary birds; but as they feed only in the 
day time, and betake themselves to the 
water at night, the fowler must exert his 
utmost care and ingenuity in order to ac- 
complish his ends : all must be planned in 
the dark, and every trace of suspicion re- 
moved ; for nothing can exceed the vigi- 
lent circumspection and acute ear of the 
sentinel, who, placed on some eminence, 
with out stretched neck surveys every 
thing that moves within the circle of the 
centre on which lie takes his stand ; and 
the instant he sounds the alarm, the whole 
flock betake themselves to flight/' 
The Grey-lag or common Wild Goose 
seems to be widely and numerously spread 
over ail the various parts of the northern 
world, from whence flocks of them migrate 
a long way southward' during the winter. 
They are at different seasons to be met 
with from Lapland to the Cape of Good 
Hope, and on the American continent from 
Hudson's Bay to South Carolina: dif- 
ferent voyagers have seen them in the Ma- 
gellanic Straits, at Port Egmont, Terra 
del Fuego, New Holland, &c. ; They ap- 
