THE DANGERS BY THE WAY 



found about a dozen dead bodies that had lodged 

 underneath the galley." 



When crossing the Great Lakes migrating 

 birds are sometimes overtaken by a storm and 

 before they can reach land are beaten to the 

 water by thousands. Probably only a part of 

 those so drowned are washed ashore, but Mr. 

 H. W. Henshaw states that after a heavy storm 

 in early September on Lake Michigan the shore 

 of the lake was so thickly strewn with the bodies 

 of dead birds that if they were as numerous on 

 the whole eastern shore as they were on the part 

 of the shore he examined, over half a million 

 birds must have drowned and washed ashore in 

 this one storm. 



STORM BOUND TRAVELERS 



It is not only when migrating over water that 

 birds are killed by storms. Mr. H. P. Attwater 

 writes from Rockport, Texas: 



"Thousands of Warblers undoubtedly per- 

 ished here last week during the 'norther' which 

 lasted three days commencing on March 16. 

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