166 NEWS FROM THE BIRDS. 



tucky or Tennessee, where tliey may remain a 

 few days, or even a couple of weeks, feeding 

 on seeds, berries, and insects, until a cold w^ave 

 from the North warns them that the time has 

 come to resume their pilgrimage toward the 

 Southland. 



When I interrogated the boys as to the ex- 

 tent of the birds' travels, they were somewhat 

 nonplussed, but very anxious to have their curi- 

 osity gratified. So I explained that some spe- 

 cies of migrants spend the winter in the south- 

 ern part of the United States, others wander 

 into Mexico, others to Yucatan, Central Amer- 

 ica, Costa Rica, Colombia, and even as far as 

 Peru and Brazil. Quite a number winter on 

 the Bahama Islands, the Florida Keys, and the 

 West Indies. If we could only follow them in 

 their travels, and study their interesting con- 

 duct in all places and in every season ! Among 

 our most " traveled " birds are the curlews, two 

 species of which, the Hudsonian and Eskimo, 

 breed in summer in the Arctic reo^ions, and 

 often range in winter as far south as Patagonia. 

 What globe flyers they are ! Even our com- 

 mon little spotted sandpij^er sometimes goes on 

 a winter jaunt to Brazil, where, not to make a 

 paradox, he finds perpetual summer. 



At the World's Fair I visited the Costa Rica 



