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and white. I came to the woods and walked along a Verboten Weg bordered 
with fragrant elder and water hemlock and mints of many kinds, red and 
purple and magenta, with here and there patches of yellow touch-me-nots. 
It was like an enchanted forest, the woods full of bird voices, many of 
them mysterious. The ring dove gave his coo that has the rhythm of our 
barred owl, and a chiffchaff declaimed tirelessly. The prettiest songs came 
from a robin redbreast and a willow warbler. 
All at once I discovered an oriole’s nest myself! It was twenty feet 
up in an alder and looked like some giant vireo’s nest. I shook the tree, 
but no angry parent appeared; so I waited, leaning against the alder, 
hoping to identify some more singers. 
I noticed a rather large brownish bird 
high in the trees; it was difficult to see it 
clearly, but it seemed to have an immense 
bill. Soon it hopped up to a ridiculous ball 
of whitish cotton with a big yellow bill. 
Hawfinches! The birds Dr. Lorenz had 
hoped I could find to raise because they 
made such charming pets! Well, I had 
found a baby hawfinch, but a bit late. 
All at once a soft, sweet, flute-like note 
floated down from above. Never had the 
pirol’s song sounded sweeter. I waited quiet- 
ly. Then I jumped as an angry snarl! exploded. 
The gorgeous father had discovered me. 
As I walked home in the evening there was emphatic chattering in the 
willows; a great company of jackdaws, parents and young, rose and, with 
loud kah kahs, flew to their home under the roof of Lorenz Hall. 
Chicago, Ill. 
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The Mysteries of Bird Migration 
By ORPHEUS MOYER SCHANTZ 
MANY LARGE animals migrate from one region to another, driven by the 
necessity of finding food and to avoid the rigors of climatic changes. 
In the pioneer days of the settlement of the western states, countless 
herds of buffalo, estimated as numbering millions, migrated along definite 
routes, following the seasons from north to south and vice versa, in search 
of grasslands. 
Present day migrations of caribou are among the most spectacular of 
great movements of animals. When on the trail they travel in such close 
formation that their wide-spreading antlers may be heard rattling against 
each other. These “wild brothers” of the domesticated reindeer swim arctic 
streams with ease, as nature has provided them with hollow hair which 
makes these large deer buoyant. 
Another strange migration is that of a small rodent, the northern 
European lemming. Because of overpopulation and a consequent scarcity 
