MIGRATION ON THE COAST. 295 
Another peril of migration is the danger of losing 
the way. Many young and inexperienced birds 
go astray each autumn, and the British list contains 
the names of numbers of rare species that have 
visited us on abnormal flights. Many of these birds 
have been captured on the coast. From Eastern 
Europe, from Siberia, from Africa, and even from 
America, these wanderers have come. Each period 
of migration, the observer, on the coast, may be 
agreeably surprised to meet with one of these lost 
and wandering individuals; and it is this glorious 
uncertainty that adds considerably to the pleasure 
of a ramble along the shore in spring and autumn. 
