THE TRAVELS OF BIRDS 



South America. This is a journey of not less 

 than 400 miles. Probably the birds make it in 

 one night. 



One might think that having reached South 

 America the Ricebirds would find suitable win- 

 ter quarters on the great savannas of Venezuela 

 and Colombia. But still the way leads south- 

 ward. Down the Andes they go ; over the great 

 tropical forests, across the Amazon, beyond the 

 campos of Brazil to the great plains and marshes 

 on the upper waters of the Paraguay River. 

 Here they are all crowded into a region not 

 more than one-third as large as that in which 

 they live during the summer. 



We have been following the Bobolinks of the 

 North Atlantic states, but the Bobolink's summer 

 home stretches across the continent from the 

 Atlantic almost to the Pacific. 



It is a pleasure for us to know that if Bobo- 

 links have been becoming rare in some parts 

 of the eastern United States they have been grow- 

 ing more common in some western states. 



Bob is a true pioneer. He has followed the 

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