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THE OSPREY. 



lig-ht-ships around the water coasts, we 

 have learned many thing-s. One of the 

 unexpected facts is that mostof Eng-land's 

 resident birds are more or less migrator}-, 

 their summer birds g'oing" east for the 

 winter and others of the same species 

 come from the east to take their places. I 

 think this is true of our own birds. 

 Thoug-h where they g-o, is not yet a 

 revealed fact. Juncos, Canadian Tree 

 Sparrows, Nuthatches, Chickadees and 

 some of the Woodpeckers, all of which 



over the water on its mig-ratory journey. 

 Breedings in Labrador, this bird mig-rates 

 to northern Brazil for the winter, and on 

 the assumption that the long-est time a 

 bird can remain on the wing- is fifteen 

 hours — and on the supposition which ob- 

 servation makes probable that the journey 

 is made in one uninterrupted flig^ht, the 

 enormous rate of speed is 255 miles an 

 hour. I am g"lad the words supposition 

 and probable were inserted in this state- 

 ment. 



FROM PHOTOGRAPH BY M. J. ELROD, ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 



SNOWV OWL ( FROM LIFE. ) 



are so much in evidence in the winter, 

 are not seen in summer, save in sing-les 

 or pairs in wooded places. A few Jun- 

 cos have been known to nest here in 

 retired places, but their nests are not 

 often reported. 



Heinrich Gatke, in his report of fifty- 

 one years observations at Helig-oland' 

 g-ives some startling- fig-ures of the rate 

 of flig-ht of mig-ratory birds. He says 

 that Hooded Crows will travel at the rate 

 of 125 miles an hour. Still more rapidly 

 he thinks must the Virg-inia Plover speed 



As an illustration of the traveled bird, 

 he g-ives the Knot as an interesting- ex- 

 ample. The Knot is thoug-ht to breed in 

 some unknown polar lands lying between 

 the Jeannette Islands and the pole — for its 

 nest has not yet been found. On its au- 

 tumn migration it has been met with in 

 New Zealand, having traveled half the 

 circumference of the g-lobe. The Brant 

 Goose, Ross's Gull, and the Curlew 

 Sandpiper are other birds that breed in 

 the same terra incognito. 



It has been g-enerally believed that in 



