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Show Ambitious Wild Geese. Only one native Kpocies of wild geese breeds well ln captivity. Thnt is the Canada goose, which, under suitable conditions, can he bred us easily as the barnyard varieties. The New i'ork zoological park has reared several sev-eral Canada geese every year until Its flock now numbers many pairs. The usual number of pairs nested last spring, but one curiously acquisitive and equally pugnacious pair, apparently apparent-ly dissatisfied with their own brood of five, decided to increase it. By combined com-bined browbeating and persuasion they succeeded In abducting the goslings of other birds until they had 15, a number num-ber entirely without precedent. |