. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . LESSliR YULLOW-LEGS IN FLOIUDA POOL. ANXIOUS KING-NTCKED PLOVERS. ■WHEN THEY CAME TOGETHER CHAPTER XIII NORTHWARD WITH THE SHORE-BIRD HOST Ao mortal saw it go ; —But who doth hearIts summer cheerAs it Jlitteth to and fro / How ITT. SWIFT and tireless of flight, late in May the hordesof migrant shore-birds are gone as suddenly as theyappeared. No one sees them go ; probably the startis in the evening. But by the time we miss them they maybe a thousand miles farther to the north, — that is,
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . LESSliR YULLOW-LEGS IN FLOIUDA POOL. ANXIOUS KING-NTCKED PLOVERS. ■WHEN THEY CAME TOGETHER CHAPTER XIII NORTHWARD WITH THE SHORE-BIRD HOST Ao mortal saw it go ; —But who doth hearIts summer cheerAs it Jlitteth to and fro / How ITT. SWIFT and tireless of flight, late in May the hordesof migrant shore-birds are gone as suddenly as theyappeared. No one sees them go ; probably the startis in the evening. But by the time we miss them they maybe a thousand miles farther to the north, — that is, whenthey have really decided to be on the move. Previously theymav have fed leisurelv along from beach to beach and marshto marsh, recuperating from their long flight across southernseas. But now the vernal influence sounds the clarion call,and they forthwith strike the real limicoline pace. Where do they go? Less is known about the breeding 224 WILD WINGS haunts and habits of this mysterious tribe than of anv orderin the system of ornithology. While a very few of the specieslinger on our Southern coasts, the great mass of them pu
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