Show STRAY BIRDS AT SEA Nothing is on the face of it more cut curious than tho the fact that tiny birds of at comparatively feeble power of oC flight often light on the time decks locks or in the time rl rig rig- of or ships hundreds of or miles attics out from froni the shore In iii the thc heart of ot the stormy Atlantic or Pacific Why hy the they are arc ml migrants rants o of o ninn many will no doubt sa say But this supposition supposition sup sup- position n will not at all aJI acco account nt for tor torman man many such Instances Birds arc often oCten picked up quite ore ofT the lines of or migra tion They generally appear ono one at a time and In unsettled weather Fourteen Four Four- teen teon have been seen on a ship In one day representing live different ent ape SIO- clog Cio An n extraordinary fact act one notices no no- tices is that these birds seem when no cat or do dog is aboard absolutely fearless earl ss I have hn m myself picked up In m my hand handa a sim small 11 bird hird of oC till the warbler tribe on time the dock deck of nr ti u steamer when 00 on miles rl from m the coast of Newfoundland And It J A l' l j jc M c r. r V VM 3 i o I P h J. J i. i t- t J Is not nol that the they are arc tired out Most of the birds that como corno aboard an fairly fresh and can fly well weli yet ct of I their own accord d they will stay about a ship till tili In sight of or land Then sud sull den deal denly their o old oid timidity assails them and they thoy become as wild as us ever Altogether tho time matter ha has hag been very ery puzzling to to naturalists and it Is 15 only lately latey that anything like hike a satisfactory explanation has been ed Wo Yo all aJl know that some of ot the or io-or creatures po possess ss sense cense which wo we human beings hare o not mint It is sled that In birds the sense tn I of the In Instinct of oC direction which Is what enables them to 11 tImid ml i t t tf their wa way during durIng- ml migration is so in intimately in- in r associated with that of ot self self- pl that when the former is lost the latter goes also Now these birds that find their way onto the ships far tar out at sea have no Ito doubt lost their sense of ot direction Up In the tho higher re regions lon of oC the thc at atmosphere at- at fierce currents of air all constantly con con- st. stream aon along and our little migrants ants must have o flown too hl high h and been caught In these Re an and carried carrle on and Oil on e exerting N jU Just l sufficient nt to In mm keep imp Up This their sudden appearance yo 1 tam fai Crom rota shot shoie and II Is the th only emily If seeni- seeni mJ m- m I. I J r t I T A t. t R i 1 possible suggestion to explain their remarkable tameness lameness Darwin found birds on the Galapa- Galapa Jos Islands ISland which were extraordinarily Ill Iii ily tame tome but It seems more niome likely that thal these were tame from absolute ignorance ot of and unfamiliarity with human beings Not ot only emily are arc small I birds seen out at sea but hut insects oven come aboard and this particularly In warm latitudes Th se must mut certainly bo ho led cart out b by the wind for Cor their thelt lown twit own f bU powers of flight could ni never nev- nev i er tI L Nerve tI unaided The whole l II It-i It a VII very i Interesting one n ami time till furI fur- fur I tia-t- tia lC reseat research alch which Is hi now going going- On Oni 1 r L 10 J- J i K ket i f L SS i Into tho curious air air curr currents In In Inthe the higher re regions Ions of the atmo atmosphere will viiI doubtless tend to ow tha-ow more light on this standing long puzzle to natural natural- isU Ista S |