Show ALASKAN BIRDS IN california CALIFORNI strange visitors brought to san be ben r nardino by big storm 4 I 1 at an ail early carly hour this his t morning sov eral flocks of strange birds numbering thousands came into the city on the wings of a big rain and wind wina storm and this morning uie bodies of many of tile the fowl were found lying inert in the downtown n streets streets and in an we th 0 parks says ghys ti a san 0 arm corre c pon dent of the san air 1 fele theair the air was filled last cries 0 4 strange fowl which attracted by tile the electric lik lights lits roosted upon the buildings or fell exhausted in the streets investigation today to day showed that many of the birds were t of alas lean kail va variety barety and the only a accounting acou i I 1 for their presence in this t 1 latitude l abitu le to la that they were engaged in a 1 long ong flight to the southern zones from their northern summer haunts and had been deterred front from their route by heavy winds and rains the most noticeable birds were tile the northern and the night herons the former cormor birds are arc rarely seen outside of alaska or in the far south 1 |