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Show CARRY SMALLER BIRDS. Eminent Ornithologist Asserts Larger Species Arslst Smnllei in Their Annual Migrations. It was an opinion held by many In ancient times thnt small birds In migrating were often carried on the backs of tho larger. In Egypt, for example, It was held that wagtails wero thus carried by storks. And many years ago a Swdlsh nnturalist, Hedenborg, mnde somo temnrkablo observations ob-servations on the subject. During tho arrival of the flights of storks at Rhodes from oversea, Hedenborg frequently fre-quently heard tho voices of singing birds without being able to seo them. At last, after careful observation, when n flight of storks had Just alighted, alight-ed, ho saw that they hnd small birds perched on their backs. Tho writer of a recent hook, "Recreations of a Naturalist," Mr. J. E. Hartlng. has somo Interesting remnrks on this subject. sub-ject. Most ornithologists probably regard tho Idea as a myth, but Mr. Hnrting's remarks seem to admit a possibility that thero may be somo truth In It. |