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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



Photo by F. R. Miller. 



Young Prairie Horned Lark. 



THE COMING OF THE BIRDS. 



Harry C. Fetterolf. 



This is the season when the birds, which had gone south last autumn, are 

 again going over that long, tiresome journey northward. Hour after hour, 

 day after day, for many weeks in succession, numerous flocks of migrants 

 swarm across the sky, while the oft repeated cries and signals float earthward 

 by day and night, which tells us of their flight. 



Most of the smaller tribes fly low, or at a medium height; some slowly, 

 others more swiftly; while the larger and more daring, as the Wild Ducks 

 and Geese, and various other large birds, fly as high and sometimes higher 

 than the eve of man can reach. Probably these latter birds resorted to this 

 mode of flying because of previous experiences with shotguns, which were 

 being used for sporting or millinery purposes, and were constantly thinning 

 their ranks. 



