Show and the statue of liberty filsht A few evenings ago I 1 took the steamer with a party of naturalists natura lists to beddoes Bed loes island as the electric lights at the top of the statue are known to attract multitudes of birds every spring and fall there had been cold weather for a few days before and millions of birds were hurrying south we obtained a permit and went up to the topmost gallery of the statue and waited the night had not far advanced when all the heavens seemed to become fall of wings which produced a tempest of whirring sound then came the calls of the leaders and aliey rang out eo clearly that they could be heard for half a mile ti tho storm the responses were fainter than the signaling cries but they were quite definite the object of the calls of course was to keep tho flocks together for as could be seen through strong glasses birds of a hundred species were driving along on the breast of the storm all that came near the statue hovered around the light in large circles bet some of them struck against the bronze or stone there were sandpipers sand pipers of every land geeting pe eting peeling as they went golden wings and other woodpeckers pec kers with their loud and rather hoarse cries warblers warb lers of every kind and their signaling ran through a wide gamut of sounds thrushes robins meadow larks thatchers nu and congregations of bobolinks that filled the air with hurricanes of lovely muaia as they swept by sometimes a huge black cloud passed along and the glasses showed that they were blackbirds but they dad not chatter as they do on the edge of the forest leader s made all the noise and preserved order I 1 know not how many flocks went by of teal wood duck black duck mergansers sers curlew snipe plover phaebe birds and what not but none could mistake the kingfishers king fishers as they went with their scolding laughter through the dark we caught a score or so of the birds in nets and in our hats and kept them till the morning after which we released them and all through the night bats chased and feasted upon the silly i moths that gathered around the spikes of electric flame A large number of birds lay dead upon the grass in the morning having struck the statue harpers weekly |