. St. Nicholas [serial]. , they fly low andsearch for food. When they return in the after-noon, they fly high, heading straight for theroost. Hence the expression as the crow flies. Like the chimney-swifts, crows do not entertheir sleeping-place until practically the last birdhas arrived. In the meantime, they alight on theground in near-by fields. As bird after birdreturns and drops down among the others, theground becomes black with crows. I have seenseveral acres covered with them. They seem tohave very little to say about the days experience. It is almost dark before they go to bed. Then t
. St. Nicholas [serial]. , they fly low andsearch for food. When they return in the after-noon, they fly high, heading straight for theroost. Hence the expression as the crow flies. Like the chimney-swifts, crows do not entertheir sleeping-place until practically the last birdhas arrived. In the meantime, they alight on theground in near-by fields. As bird after birdreturns and drops down among the others, theground becomes black with crows. I have seenseveral acres covered with them. They seem tohave very little to say about the days experience. It is almost dark before they go to bed. Then they rise from the ground and in orderly pro-cession silently fly to their roost in the woods. Besides these daily journeys to and from theirsleeping-places, some birds wander about during the winter over land and sea. Their chief objectin life at this time is the search for food, andthey go almost anywhere that it is likely to befound. So in the winter we may have visits fromcrossbills or pine-grosbeaks. These birds feed. THB PINE-GROSBEAKS FEED ON THESEEDS OF CONE-BEARING TREES. on the seeds of cone-bearing trees. When thereis an abundant supply of this kind of food in thefar north, we see very few or none of them. Butwhen the pines and spruces produce a small crop,then the crossbills and grosbeaks come to us inunusual numbers. It is said that herring-gulls have been knownto follow a steamer across the Atlantic. Theywere not attracted by the steamer, we may besure, but by the food which was thrown over-board from it. The great albatross ranges so far over thesouthern seas that it is called the wanderingalbatross. In the museum of Brown Universitythere is a mounted specimen of a wandering
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