. Trail and camp-fire [microform] : the book of the Boone and Crockett Club. Hunting; Hunting; Chasse; Chasse. Trail and Camp-Fire ponds accounts for the scarcity of graminace- ous duck and geese. The Canada goose is met with in summer on all the northern rivers and larger lakes, and affords exciting sport during the moulting sea- son, when they cannot fly, and are chased in canoes and killed with the paddles. This, to be sure, cannot be called sport in its true sense, but it is great fun, and also provides a change of diet. Along the coasts the Canada goose is met with frequently, and it bree
. Trail and camp-fire [microform] : the book of the Boone and Crockett Club. Hunting; Hunting; Chasse; Chasse. Trail and Camp-Fire ponds accounts for the scarcity of graminace- ous duck and geese. The Canada goose is met with in summer on all the northern rivers and larger lakes, and affords exciting sport during the moulting sea- son, when they cannot fly, and are chased in canoes and killed with the paddles. This, to be sure, cannot be called sport in its true sense, but it is great fun, and also provides a change of diet. Along the coasts the Canada goose is met with frequently, and it breeds in large numbers on the outer islands of James Bay. The snow geese or wavies, until within a few years back, were killed by tens of thousands on Hudson Bay on their way to and from their breeding grounds in the far north, but the settlement of the northwest appears to have greatly reduced their numbers, so that the Hudson Bay posts on the bay can no longer depend upon salt goose as the principal article of food throughout the year. The brant goose is shot in large numbers along the north shore of the Gulf of St. Law- rence in spring and autumn, but they are never seen elsewhere in Labrador, being un- known to the northern Indians. They must 40. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. New York : Forest and Stream Pub. Co.
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