NATURE STUDY 
A MONTHLY BULLETIN OF THE 
Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences. 
Vol. I. JANUARY, 1901. No. 8. 
The Canada Goose. 
BY THEODORA RICHARDSON. 
It was a gray day in later October when we discovered, com¬ 
ing toward us in the northern sky, a tiny line which proved to 
be twelve Canada geese, flying, as they sometimes do, in single 
line rather than in the two lines of the wedge. They passed 
like an aerial train, swiftly, with direct southern course, passing 
steadily over the stark, silent woods, never heeding the calm, 
silvery lake, disappearing from view behind the distant blue hill. 
They were flying quite low, their usual flight being about a mile 
in height. 
All had witnessed a rare picture in migration. From whence 
had they come, and whither were they going? Most birds are 
seldom seen in this migratory flight, though we often hear their 
call notes as the birds pass over. 
One spring evening a fog arose, enshrouding everything in its 
dense misty veil; at about eight o’clock the “ honk, honk,” of 
wild geese was heard in various parts of our city; evidently the 
geese had become bewilderd by the electric lights, had deviated 
