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Show - Migratory Birds Wing Way Back to Alaska St. Michael, Alaska. Thou- J sands of wild water fowl are completing Uie last leg of their long migration from the Gulf of $ Mexico and Lower California to the great delta of the Yukon f river und its maize of shallow . waterwnys. Here in the thou- sands of square miles- of grassy marsh the waterfowl find an J abundance of mollusks, fish and f vegetable food. Jf j Great (locks of Canadian geese 4 and ducks have been arriving 1 for two weeks, making the air j vibrate with their honking as t they seek landing places In the f reaches of dried grass from f 2 which the snow only recently re- J, I ceded. I Green-winged teal, gulls and terns have established nesting I grounds near the roar of the f Bering sea breakers. Cornio- T j- rants, snipe, coots and horned !j. puffins have been arriving dally I in Immense flocks, already muted i for the season of brooding. T Among the rarer witerfowl ? nesting on the lower Yukon are $ swan, blue heron and crnne f These three species strangely I sepn to like each other's com- f puny, and nest, hunt and fly to- t 4. gether. About the congested bird eltv $ are the arch enemies, crows t magpies, eagles, foxes and wen- I sels, watching every opportunity $ I t prey on eggs or young birds. J |