SOME FAMOUS BIRD TRAVELERS 



birds not only that Columbus landed in the 

 Bahamas instead of on the Florida coast, but 

 perhaps that he landed at all. 



MIGRATION TO HAWAII 



If we think the Tropic Bird's flight of at least 

 six hundred miles across the sea to that little dot 

 which marks the Bermudas on maps of the At- 

 lantic, remarkable, what shall we say of the birds 

 which every year visit the Hawaiian Islands? 



These islands are said to be farther from a con- 

 tinent than any other part of the earth's surface.. 

 From California on the east and the Aleutian 

 Islands on the north they are distant two thou- 

 sand miles, while Japan is even farther away. 

 Nevertheless these islands are the regular winter 

 resort of great numbers of Golden Plover, Turn- 

 stones, Tattlers and Curlew, all of which are 

 believed to rear their young in Alaska. 



Here, then, we have an over-sea journey more 

 than three times as long as that to the Bermu- 

 das ; and furthermore it is made to a winter, 

 not a summer home. 



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