250 THE STONE-CURLEW 



As to how the great exodus, and the preparations leading up to 

 it, takes place I cannot say. One can imagine its following one of the 

 great evening displays, and the dancing and wild rushes of the birds 

 gradually ending in a flight, not to the old feeding-grounds in the 

 cultivated fields and marshes, but to others far south on the way to 

 winter quarters. 



