MIGRATION ON THE COAST. 295 



Another peril of migration is the danger of losing 

 the way. Many young and inexperienced birds 

 go astray each autumn, and the British list contains 

 the names of numbers of rare species that have 

 visited us on abnormal flights. Many of these birds 

 have been captured on the coast. From Eastern 

 Europe, from Siberia, from Africa, and even from 

 America, these wanderers have come. Each period 

 of migration, the observer, on the coast, may be 

 agreeably surprised to meet with one of these lost 

 and wandering individuals ; and it is this glorious 

 uncertainty that adds considerably to the pleasure 

 of a ramble along the shore in spring and autumn. 



