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Title: Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, John H. (John Henry), 1863-1935
Subjects: Poultry Pigeons Cage birds
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Fig. 141. Toulouse Geese i6o OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS the male. The male is called a gander. The young are calledgoslings. Goose and gander are the modern forms of Anglo-Saxon names. Origin. Our fully domesticated geese all originated in theOld World. The European stock is believed to be derivedfrom the Gray Lag Goose, which is still found in Europe inthe wild state. The origin of the curious name u Gray Laghas been the subject of much speculation. The most plausibletheory is that which takes lag in its common meaning
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Fig. 142. Toulouse goslings three weeks old and supposes that the term was applied to this species of goosebecause it was slower in motion, or because it lingered longerin Northern Europe, than the less familiar species. As in thewild state the Gray Lag Goose ranged over Europe and North-ern Asia, it may have been domesticated many times in manydifferent places. Wild specimens may still be brought intodomestication, but there are no authentic reports of such cases.The Chinese breeds of geese, which will shortly be described,are quite different in appearance from the European races,but the difference does not necessarily show that they are ofdifferent origin. GEESE 161 Common geese. Throughout Europe and America the ordi-nary geese are of much the same type as their wild progenitor.They are a little heavier and coarser than the Gray Lag Goose,and have not its great power of flight, yet some of them can flybetter than any other domestic poultry. The author has seenflocks of common geese

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