. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE ENCINE ami FOOT OF THE THE ENGINE AND FOfJT Ol IHi; )!()H-\VHFrE. and to any place. So what is really meant bytravel, as we ha.\e been using the word, is mi-gration. For many years I have been studying the mi-grations of birds. I have gone to their summerhomes in the north and their winter homes in thesouth. I have seen them go and seen them come. I have been on little islands in the seas atwhich they paused for food, and on vessels inthe ocean when they stopped to rest. With a tele-scope I have watched them flying at night: andwhile at the top of a l
. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE ENCINE ami FOOT OF THE THE ENGINE AND FOfJT Ol IHi; )!()H-\VHFrE. and to any place. So what is really meant bytravel, as we ha.\e been using the word, is mi-gration. For many years I have been studying the mi-grations of birds. I have gone to their summerhomes in the north and their winter homes in thesouth. I have seen them go and seen them come. I have been on little islands in the seas atwhich they paused for food, and on vessels inthe ocean when they stopped to rest. With a tele-scope I have watched them flying at night: andwhile at the top of a lighthouse, I have had thebirds, blinded by the bright rays from the lantern,fly against me as they tried to continue theirjourney through the night. Then, of course, Ihave studied what other ornithologists have writ-ten about this wonderful subject of bird-migra-tion. From what I have learned from them andfrom the birds themselves, I propose now to actas the birds historian. I shall try to tell you how they prepare for thejourney; how they find their way; when
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