THE TRAVELS OF BIRDS 



erected to warn man of danger or guide him to 

 safety yearly lure many thousands of feathered 

 voyageurs to their death. 



The night I passed in the Statue of Liberty, 



THE NIGHT FLYERS' BEACON OF DANGER. 



Lighthouses, particularly on cloudy, stormy nights, attract migrat- 

 ing birds as a candle does moths, and many are killed by strik- 

 ing the lenses that surround the light, or some part of the 

 lighthouse. 



of which I have already written, although many 

 birds fluttered into the statue none was actually 

 killed or badly injured. Migrants do not always 

 escape this great monument so easily, and on 

 many mornings after a stormy night in the season 

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