. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . ternate, semicircular bands of black and white; sidesof the vent rich light violet; tail-coverts long, of a hair-liketexture at the sides, over they descend, and of a deepblack, glossed with green; back duskj^-bronze, reflecting green;scapulars black; tail tapering, dark glossy green above; belowdusky; primaries dusky, silvery hoary without, tipped withviolet blue; secondaries greenish-blue, tipped with white; wing-coverts violet blue, tipped with blac
. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . ternate, semicircular bands of black and white; sidesof the vent rich light violet; tail-coverts long, of a hair-liketexture at the sides, over they descend, and of a deepblack, glossed with green; back duskj^-bronze, reflecting green;scapulars black; tail tapering, dark glossy green above; belowdusky; primaries dusky, silvery hoary without, tipped withviolet blue; secondaries greenish-blue, tipped with white; wing-coverts violet blue, tipped with black; vent dusky; legs andfeet yellowish-red; claws strong and hooked. The female has the head slightly crested; crown, darkpurple; behind the e_ye, a bar of white; chin and throat, for twoinches, also white; head and neck, dark drab; breast, duskybrown, marked with large triangular spots of white; back, dark,glossy, bronze-brown, with some gold and greenish reflections;speculum of the wings nearly the same as in the male, but thefine pencilling of the sides, and the long hair-like tail-covertsare wanting; the tail is also shorter. ^. AXAS CAXADCNSIS. CANADA GOOSE. Iionk I and fuiard to the lioraxd is the trumpet tone, Gdose can lag, or feather , or break the goodly cone,llawnk I onward to the cool blue lakes where lie our safe love-bowers,No stop, no drop of ocean brine, near stool or hassock hoary,Our travelling watchword is our males, our goslings, and our glory !Symsonia and Labrador for us are crowned with flowers,And not a breast on wave shall rest, until that heaven is ours. Hawnk! Hawnk! E—ellawnk! This well-kiiowu Fowl is widely spread over the whole ofour country, and there are few portions of the United Stateswhere the honking of the Wild Groose is not familiar to theinhabitants. These Fowl, in their migrations South and North,are considered the sure harbingers of dreary Winter, or thenear approach of cheerful Spring. They breed in the remotestregi
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