CANADA GOOSE. 
WILD GOOSE. 
Branta canadensis. 
Ch\R. Mantle grayish brown, the feathers with paler edges ; head and 
neck black a broad white patch on the throat; tail black, tail-coverts 
white; under parts gray, shading to white on the under tail-coverts ; bill 
and legs black. Length about 36 inches. 
Nest In a variety of situations, but usually on the ground and made 
of twigs and grass loosely laid and lined with feathers and down. 
Eggs. 5-7 ; pale dull green ; 3.50 X 2.50. 
The Common Wild Goose of America is known familiarly in 
every part of the Union as a bird of passage to and from its 
breeding-places in the interior and north of the continent. The 
arrival of these birds in the desolate fur countries of Hudson 
Bay is anxiously looked for and hailed with joy by the abo- 
rigines of the woody and swampy districts which they frequent, 
who depend principally upon them for subsistence during the 
