THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS 

 Locomotive engineers have stated that in foggy 

 weather birds often hurl themselves against the 

 headlight and frequently their bodies are later picked 

 up from the engine platform beneath. Birds seem 

 rarely to lose their sense of direction, and they pursue 

 their way for hundreds of miles across the trackless 

 ocean. Terns, Gulls, and Murres are known to go 

 many miles in quest of food for their young and re- 

 turn through dense fogs with unerring directness to 

 their nests. 



During the spring it is not uncommon for strange 

 waterfowl to be found helpless in the streets or fields 

 of a region in which they are ordinarily unknown. 

 These birds have become exhausted during the storm 

 of the night before, or have been injured by striking 

 telephone or telegraph wires, an accident which often 

 happens. Once I picked up a Loon after a stormy 

 night. Apparently it had recovered its strength 

 after a few hours' rest, but, as this bird can rise on the 

 wing only from a body of water, over the surface of 

 which it can paddle and flap for many rods, and as 

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