SOUTHWARD BOUND 103 
more than two hundred cross the moon’s disk in 
two hours. The greater part passed so swiftly as 
to make it impossible to say more than that they 
were birds; but others, flying at a greater alti- 
tude, and therefore traversing the field of vision 
less rapidly, were identified as blackbirds, rails, 
snipe, and ducks. Another observer plainly 
recognized swallows, warblers, goldfinches, and 
woodpeckers. 
All over the northern hemisphere to-night, in 
America, Europe, and Asia, countless multitudes 
of these wayfarers will be coursing the regions of 
the upper air; and to-morrow, if we go out with 
our eyes open, we shall find, here and there, busy 
little flocks of stragglers that have stopped by 
the way to rest and feed: sparrows, snowbirds, 
kinglets, nuthatches, chickadees, thrushes, war- 
blers, wrens, and what not, a few of them singing, 
and every one of them evidently in love with life, 
and full of happy expectations. 
