Terns 



It had starved to death, he says, "ruined by too much wing. 

 Another Icarus. Its great power of flight had made it bold and 

 venturesome, and had carried it so far out of its range that it 

 starved before it could return." 



By the end of July the young black terns have sufficiently 

 developed to join the flocks of adults that even thus early show 

 the restlessness called forth by the instinct for migration. In 

 August migration commences in earnest; and when we see the 

 birds east of the Alleghanies, they are usually on their journey 

 south, the only time they show a preference for the Atlantic 

 coast. 



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