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Show Birds Find Refuge on a Lightship. Tho captain in charge of a lightship light-ship situated at tho entrance to San Francisco harbor recently reported to tho United Stntcs light houso commissioner com-missioner that a large number ot land birds took refugo on board tho vessel. ves-sel. A denso smoko from northern forest 11 res hung over the locality and completely obscured sea and land. Evidently tho birds had lost their way, and, exhausted by their long flight, tho wanderers lighted on the ship undeterred by tho presence of tho crow. At one time sixty of tho feathered guests wero counted on various va-rious parts of tho ship. Owls, cranes, hummingbirds and other non-marine Bpcclcs wero noticed during tho time. |