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SOME FAMOUS BIRD TRAVELERS 



SURPRISING as are the travels of the Bob- 

 olink there are other birds which make 

 even more wonderful journeys. 



When we see how in our own time the Bobo- 

 link has gone West with other pioneers, we can 

 to some extent understand the manner in which 

 it may have learned the way from its summer 

 to its winter home. 



But when birds migrate regularly to and from 

 islands which are hundreds or even thousands 

 of miles from the nearest land, we are at a loss 

 to explain how they can have learned to make 

 so long a journey over seas with no place to rest 

 between the ports. 



MIGRATION TO THE BERMUDAS 



One February when I was sailing to the Lesser 

 Antilles, about midway between the Bermudas 



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