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New England. The "White-winged Scoter, that 

 spends his winter with you here in North Carolina, 

 has reached you at the end of autumn by a round- 

 about route which took him to the coast of Labra- 

 dor, but when he leaves you in the spring, he'll 

 shape a course from Long Island Sound straight 

 for his breeding ground on the shores of Hudson 

 Bay." 



''Do they all go north and south?" asked the 

 boy. ' ' Don 't any birds fly east and west ? ' ' 



"Plenty, in Europe," the expert answered, "for 

 that would result in changes of climate and food. 

 But not in America. The only bird that I can 

 recall now which seems to start south and then 

 changes his mind and flies to the west is the Eoss 

 Snow Goose, which flies from the Arctic across 

 Canada, with the rest of the waterfowl, and then 

 turns south-west, flying over the main range of the 

 Eockies and settling for the winter in southern 

 California. 



"The Greenland Wheat-ear is one of the few 

 birds which makes a trans-Atlantic flight, and 

 shows a desire for European travel. It is a bird 

 just about the size of an English Sparrow, and it 

 is sometimes seen in the northeastern sections of 

 the United States. It winters in Northern Africa, 



