THE BIRD STUDY BOOK 



sounds and lakes. One stream moves down the 

 Pacific Coast, another follows the Mississippi Valley 

 to the marshes of Louisiana and Texas, while a third 

 passes diagonally across the country in a southeast- 

 erly direction until it reaches the Maryland and 

 Virginia coastline. Thence the birds disperse along 

 the coastal country from Maine to Florida. 



The Travelling Shore Birds. — Turnstones, Sander- 

 lings, Curlews, and other denizens of the beaches and 

 salt marshes migrate in great numbers along our 

 Atlantic Coast. Some of them winter in the United 

 States, and others pass on to the West Indies and 

 southward. The extent of the annual journeys un- 

 dertaken by some of these birds is indeed marvel- 

 lous. Admiral Peary has told me that he found 

 shore birds on the most northern land, where it 

 slopes down into the Arctic Sea, less than five hun- 

 dred miles from the North Pole; and these same birds 

 pass the winter seven thousand miles south of their 

 summer home. One of these wonderful migrants is 

 the Golden Plover. In autumn the birds leave 

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