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Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
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the tip broadlyconvex. Head small, oblong, compressed; neck long and slender; bodyvery full, slightly depressed. Feet short, stout; tibia bare for a short spacebelow; tarsus short, a little compressed, covered all round with angularscales; hind toe very small and elevated, third toe longest, fourth longerthan second; all reticulated at the base, scutellate toward the end, theanterior webbed. Claws small, arched, rather compressed. Plumage close,compact above, blended beneath. Wings long, convex, the second quilllongest, the first and third nearly equal. Tail very short, of sixteen or morefeathers. THE CANADA GOOSE. -Anser caxade>-sis, Linn. PLATE CCCLXXVI.—Male and Female. Although the Canada Goose is considered as a northern species, the num-ber of individuals that remain at all seasons in the milder latitudes, and indifferent portions of the United States, fully entitles this bird to be lookedupon as a permanent resident there. It is found to breed sparingly at the Xa76 P1.3Y0
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Mtlttn br-JiJ.-/uilu/ivit. rK,.?J/ /•/■■/ y Apn:,, PJlijh THE CANADA GOOSE. 179 present day, by many of the lakes, lagoons, and large streams of our WesternDistricts, on the Missouri, the Mississippi, the lower parts of the Ohio, onLake Erie, the lakes farther north, and in several large pools situated in theinterior of the eastern parts of the States of Massachusetts and Maine. Asyou advance farther toward the east and north, you find it breeding moreabundantly. While on my way to Labrador, I found it in the MagdeleineIslands, early in June, sitting on its eggs. In the Island of Anticosti thereis a considerable stream, near the borders of which great numbers are saidto be annually reared; and in Labrador these birds breed in every suitablemarshy plain. The greater number of those which visit us from still morenorthern regions, return in the vernal season, like many other species, tothe dismal countries which gave them birth. Few if any of

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