The Oologist. 



Vol. XXII. No. 10. 



Albion, N. Y., October, 1905. 



Whole No. 219 



The Oologist. 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 

 OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXI- 

 DERMY. 

 FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, 

 ALBION, N. Y. 

 ERNEST H. SHORT, Editor and Manager. 



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On Bird Migration. 



As is well known most species of 

 birds migrate at night, at least it is 

 generally believed that this is the case, 

 and it has been conclusively proven 



that many birds follow this method of 

 movement. However, many species 

 perform their seasonal movements in 

 broad day light. Wild Pigeons did 

 not migrate at night though they were 

 frequently seen making for a forest 

 late in the day and were again on the 

 move at a very early hour. It cannot 

 be understood by any person who has 

 not studied the subject how vast were 

 the seasonal waves of the Pigeons. I 

 have often stood on a southern slope 

 of a hill and watched the incoming 

 flocks. There would be as many as 

 twenty groups of birds seen at one 

 time. These groups in the form of 

 ranks would be stretchea out in a line 

 from ten to an hundred yards long 

 and embracing from a score to a 

 thousand birds. At the time of great- 

 est flight these ranks were almost con- 

 tinuous and the noise of their rushing 

 wings wasialmost like the noise of a 

 tempestuous stream escaping from 

 confinement. At times there would be 

 a lull in the incoming flight and then 

 one would see a faint line in the skv 

 to the south and this very quickly 

 grew to tangible dimensions, succeed- 

 ed by other faint lines which in their 

 turn resolved themselves into flocks: 

 and again the flocks would sweep on 

 to the north. This would continue 

 morning and evening for the space of 

 two or three hours and covering a pe- 

 riod of three to five days. Then the 

 birds would practically disappear for a 

 space of three months and only return 

 to us .in the autumn; occasionally in 

 augmented flocks but generally in de- 

 tached groups. 



