for the Goose could strike hard with both bill and wings 
when so inclined. 
The inscrutable, addle-pated Guinea-hen, thought 
to be a female but never certainly identified as such, 
deemed undesirous of human notice and hence got little of 
it. Not so the Goose, who both inspired and vsrelcomed it, 
being ever an attrextively friendly, sagacious and inter¬ 
esting bird much liked by everybody about the place. When 
closely approached and spoken to by anyone familiarly 
known, he would promptly advance with glad outcry, slow- 
flapping wings and sinuous curvings of head and neck — 
all alike betokening amicable greeting. It must be con¬ 
fessed that large greenish eggs which no other fowl could 
possibly have laid were sometimes found in the aviary but 
that idd not happen until general use of the name "Dick" 
and of masculine pronouns similarly applied, had become 
too firmly established to be then discredited or afterwards 
discontinued, because of any such belated evidence of 
femininity. 
Both birds seemed perfectly well when I left them 
and returned to Cambridge for the winter, on November 4, 
Burbank noticed nothing v^rong with either of them during 
the next two months but early in January, 1917, the Guinea- 
hen sickened and died — somewhat emaciated. Although 
then in apparently vigorous hea.lth and normal flesh, the 
Goose breathed his last only e, fev/ days later — having 
meanwhile declined all food, however tempting. Perhaps 
