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SOME CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT BIRDS. 
The Smithsonian institute scientists produce 
very strong evidence as the result of investiga¬ 
tions in the Northern states that the long-pre¬ 
vailing idea that birds go south and come north 
because of the change in weather conditions— 
such as the approach of cold on the one hand and 
of the heated term on the other—is a fallacy. If 
there has been anything more generally accept¬ 
ed throughout centuries than that this migra¬ 
tion of the birds was due to the desire of the 
birds for pleasanter living quarters, one cannot 
readily recall it. In fact, were a denial of it 
coupled with the assertion that birds do not 
migrate from the north to the south, one would 
as readily, almost, believe the one assertion as 
the other, up to the production of the evidence 
of the Smithsonian scientists. The evidence in 
support of the contention of the scientists re¬ 
ferred to covers some four hundred thousand 
observations and a period of twenty-five years. 
Some of the birds whose flights have been ob¬ 
served stop at the Gulf states on their migra¬ 
tions from the north, while others do not stop 
until they meet another summer in Brazil and 
Argentina. 
The object o'f the Smithsonian scientists was 
the desire of the government to ascertain the 
times and manner of bird migration, whether 
they were governed by storms or other metero- 
logical conditions, and such other facts as might 
be revealed. It would have been of advantage to 
the farmers of the country if the government 
could have derived any weather information or 
new way of foretelling the weather probabilities 
for a long or short term, from the doings of the 
birds. The investigations show that no matter 
how melodious the birds may be, how hand¬ 
some their plumage, or how useful they may 
be as insect destroyers, they do not r.eason, 
even the little bit that some other animals do; 
and that they are governed by instinct simply, 
which often provides in a small way for their 
protection from the most disastrous consequence 
of their long-formed habits. 
The birds, it seems, having raised their young, 
having taught them to fly, and having moulted 
and put on their winter feathers, become restive 
and start on their migration, often leaving the 
north in the pleasantest time of the year and 
returning quite as often when the snow and frosty 
nights drive them to the pine thickets for pro¬ 
tection. So little do the birds know about 
weather prospects that they are often caught in 
great storms on their migratory trips and killed 
by thousands. The observation of the Smith¬ 
sonian scientists show that weather conditions 
at the south have nothing to do with the migra¬ 
tion of the birds from there, and that one of 
the most interesting things the scientists had 
to do was to watch the great night flight of 
birds. At times during these observations the 
air seemed to be alive with birds, and at an 
observation made at Three Lakes, Wis., on Sept. 
14, 1913, within a period of some ten hours, no 
less than 3,800 calls from birds pierced the dark 
ness or the breaking dawn. One of the popular 
beliefs concerning birds that these scientists 
confirm is that the birds return each year to 
about the same locality, but at the same time they 
shatter all the poetry about bird constancy by 
saying that the female bird often brings a new 
mate with her. 
