. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. ape ofGood Hope, and is frequently seen in England in a wild state. It is quite rare in thiscountrj, and is said to be a poor breeder. The head is of medium size and rather long, blackand gray in color, with a chestnut patch around the eyes, which are of an orange color; thebill is of medium size and length, purple or bluish-red in color; neck rather small and ofmedium length. The back is narrow, curving from the base of the neck to the tail; bodyl
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. ape ofGood Hope, and is frequently seen in England in a wild state. It is quite rare in thiscountrj, and is said to be a poor breeder. The head is of medium size and rather long, blackand gray in color, with a chestnut patch around the eyes, which are of an orange color; thebill is of medium size and length, purple or bluish-red in color; neck rather small and ofmedium length. The back is narrow, curving from the base of the neck to the tail; bodylong and slender. The color of the plumage of the neck is gray and black; that of the breastpartially gray, being of a chestnut color at the center; the upper portion of the body is grayand black, the under portion a pale buff or yellow, evenly penciled with black lines. Thewdngs are white at the shoulders, with a narrow black stripe of metallic lustre, and the pri-maries and secondaries a glossy black. On the wing joints are strong, white, horny spursabout five-eighths of an inch long, instead of the hard knobs which most of the varieties of. GEESE. 649 geese have. The tail feathers are black, the thighs pale buil in plumage, and the legs areddish yellow. The Sebastopol Goose. — This is a very peculiar variety derived from the regionfrom which it takes its name, and sometimes called the Danubian Goose, it being quite com-mon in the region of the Danube. In form it resembles the common goose, the peculiaritybeing in the plumage which seems to grow the wrong way, like that of the Frizzled plumage is pure white, and from the tail and saddle they have long trailing featherswhich are beautifully curved, while they are so thin in the quill that the least breeze blowsthem about, and are said to look as though they were hatched in a gale of wind. Theaverage weight of these birds is about ten pounds each. They breed freely with commongeese, and the progeny generally show the
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