. The American poulterer's companion: : a practical treatise on the breeding, rearing, fattening, and general management of the various species of domestic poultry, : with illustrations, and portraits of fowls taken from life. . ghly valuedby the neighbors. She exhibited, some eight or ninedays past, one of the most remarkable instances ofthe power of instinct ever recorded. She was sittingon four or five eggs, and was observed to be verybusy in collecting weeds, grass, &c, to raise her farming man was ordered to take down half aload of haulm, with which she most industriouslyraised her
. The American poulterer's companion: : a practical treatise on the breeding, rearing, fattening, and general management of the various species of domestic poultry, : with illustrations, and portraits of fowls taken from life. . ghly valuedby the neighbors. She exhibited, some eight or ninedays past, one of the most remarkable instances ofthe power of instinct ever recorded. She was sittingon four or five eggs, and was observed to be verybusy in collecting weeds, grass, &c, to raise her farming man was ordered to take down half aload of haulm, with which she most industriouslyraised her nest and the eggs two feet and a very night there came down a tremendous fallof rain, which flooded all the malt shops and didgreat damage. Man made no preparation—the birddid. Instinct prevailed over reason—her eggs wereabove and only just above the water. THE GOOSE. In the species of the Goose says Boswell, pro-perly so called, nature knows but one race. The in-dustry of man has created another, larger, whoseshape, color, as well as nature, have undergone thosemodifications which are to be observed in all animalsthat have for a long time been domesticated. AQUATIC FOWLS. Fig. COMMON GOOSE. 253. Dickson says there is only one sort of the com-mon goose, though there are eeveral varieties of thetame goose. The wild goose is of a brownish-ashcolor, the individual feathers being lighter on theedge; the belly is snow-white. The tame varietiesare of various colors, chiefly white, and all the vari-ous shades of grey. Main enumerates twenty-two varieties, viz.: An-tarctic Goose, spur-winged Goose, Bering Goose,black-backed Goose, Canada Goose, barrel-headedGoose, rufus-necked Goose, half-webbed Goose,Egyptian Goose, Esquimaux Goose, Chinese Goose,snow Goose, Kusarka Goose, harvest Goose, moun-tain Goose, painted Goose, laughing Goose, greatGoose, Magellanic Goose, grey-headed CoromandelGoose, variegated 2o4 AQUATIC FOWLS. The goose, famous for the servic
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