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GOOSE. 
he is thus engaged, the sportsman keeps motion- 
less with his gun cocked, and never fires till he sees 
the eyes of the geese. After he has discharged one 
gun, he picks up another, which is purposely laid 
close beside him, and fires again as the geese are 
retiring. In order to decoy others to the spot, he 
sets up those he has killed on sticks as if alive, and 
also makes artificial birds for the same purpose. 
Notwithstanding every species of goose has a diffe- 
rent call, yet the Indians are admirable in their 
imitation of every one ; and in a good day, that is, 
when they fly in large flocks, a single Indian will 
kill two hundred. 
The snow goose, anas hyperborea Linn., likewise 
visits Hudson’s Bay, where thousands are annually 
shot by the Indians for the use of the settlement, 
and are esteemed excellent meat. They are de- 
scribed as the most numerous and the most stupid 
of all the goose race. They seem to want the in- 
stinct of others, and have so little of their shyness 
that they are taken in a very ridiculous manner in 
those parts of Siberia which they frequent. “ The 
inhabitants,” says Pennant, “ first place near the 
banks of the rivers a great net, in a straight line, 
or else form a hovel of skins sewed together. This 
done, one of the company dresses himself in the 
skin of a white rein-deer, advances towards the 
flock of geese, and then turns back towards the net 
or the hovel ; and his companions go behind the 
flock, and, by making a noise, drive them forward. 
The simple birds mistake the man in white for their 
