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buff color. The deep yellow of the long 
brick is also relieved by the wide mortar 
joint which is nearly white. 
The window arches are formed in 
counter sunk areas. The ’key of each win¬ 
dow arch is subordinated by what would 
appear to be an original idea (if such there 
is) in the use of bricks. The periphery of 
this sunken area is made of headers al¬ 
ternating in color, deep yellow and buff. 
The center of the arch is a highly polished 
piece of marble of diamond shape. About 
this and surmounting the lintels are the 
same face bricks as above described, 
broken into squares and laid on edge. The 
cut surfaces of these bricks show quite 
rough, but not objectionable. Whether 
original with Mr. Hooper, or not, the de¬ 
sign is artistic, attractive and wears well. 
The Migrations of the Birds 
(Continued from page 313 ) 
and several times after storms, windrows 
of dead birds have been found at the 
water’s edge. 
It is interesting to note the relation be¬ 
tween migration and the bird’s molting. 
Most birds care for the young until they 
are old enough to look out for themselves, 
then go through the molting period and 
when the new feathers are fully grown 
start on their southward journey in their 
fresh new clothes. But the birds that nest 
beyond the Arctic Circle have too short a 
summer to allow of such leisurely move¬ 
ments. They begin their migration as 
soon as possible after the young are out 
of the nest and molt en route. Various 
peculiar changes of plumage are pre¬ 
sented by some birds in the different mi¬ 
grations. The bobolink goes south in the 
fall as an obscurely marked bird of buff 
and olive; he returns the next spring the 
well-known black and white denizen of 
the marshes. The scarlet tanager per¬ 
forms his fall migration in a suit of uni¬ 
form greenish yellow that is known to 
only a small part of the persons who wel¬ 
come him as an old friend when he re¬ 
turns the next spring in his striking black 
and scarlet. 
Among the idiosyncrasies of bird migra¬ 
tion may be mentioned the fact that a few 
birds choose different routes for the spring 
and fall migration. The Connecticut war¬ 
bler goes north in the spring up the Mis¬ 
sissippi Valley to its breeding grounds in 
southern Canada and then in the fall jour¬ 
neys at first almost due east to New Eng¬ 
land and then south along the Atlantic 
coast to its winter home. The golden 
plover has the same double route, but on 
a much larger scale. This bird goes south 
in the fall by way of Labrador and Nova 
Scotia and across the Atlantic Ocean to 
South America and by land to Argentina. 
Then the next spring the return trip is 
made by way of northwestern South 
America, Central America and the Gulf 
of Mexico to the Mississippi Valley and 
across central Canada to the nesting 
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