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The Emperor Goose 
Catching 
Geese 
The young are hatched the last of June or early in July, and are 
led about the tundras by both parents until August, when the old birds 
moult their quill- feathers and with the still unfledged young become 
extremely helpless. At this time, myriads of other geese are in the 
same condition, and the Eskimos made a practice of 
setting up long lines of strong fish-nets on the tundras 
to form pound-traps, or enclosures with wide wings 
leading to them, into which thousands were driven and killed for food. 
The slaughter in this way was very great, for the young were killed at 
the same time. 
Fortunately, in 1909, President Roosevelt made a bird-reservation 
covering the delta of the Yukon and the tundra to the southward, which 
includes the main breeding-ground of the Emperor Goose,, and thus took 
a long step toward perpetuating this fine bird. 
Classification and Distribution 
The Emperor Goose belongs to the Order Anseres, the Family Anatidae, and 
the Genus Philactc. Its scientific name is Philacte canagica. Its habitat is both 
shores of Bering Sea and adjacent Arctic coasts and islands, and its winter range 
is southward on the American coast to northern California. 
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