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Show BIRDS TRAVEL ALONQ ROUTE8. All Have Not Same Range Swallows' Great Distance. Tho routes by which birds pass to and from ono country to another In prlng and autumn aro regularly followed. fol-lowed. Ono great thoroughfaro, ot course, is In tho spring from south to north, and conversely iu tho autumn from north to south, another Is southeast south-east to northwest; 11 third southwest to northeast, with tho return Into tho same starting points, says tho Scot-man. Scot-man. The great southern wintering region is south of the north ot Africa nnd extends to far beyond tho equator, and from It, under tho breeding Instinct In-stinct In spring, birds hurry nwny to disperse themselves over tho wldo spreading palnearctlc or northern lands, which extend ns far, In tho caso of some species, as a long way within tho arctic circle. South of tho equator during tho northern winter tho migrants 11 y toward tho south pole to breed. Tho seasonal rango limit of somo of tho northern breeding birds Is enormous several extending from Patagonia to Greenland. All migratory birds havo not tho samo rango; somo fly longer, somo shorter, distances. Tho best known ot nil tho birds of passngo, tho swallow swal-low has one of tho longost ranges from 7,000 to 10,000 mllox. In this extended rango nro also Included such birds as the giay plover, the knot, tho pectoral and curlew saudplperB and tho Asiatic golden plover. Tho longer rango from 0,000 to 7,000 111II08 Includes such well-known birds us tho cuckoo, tho corncrake, tho sedgo warbler, tho grcenshnnk; tho modorato rnngo from 3,000 to 5,000 miles cmbracos tho turtlo dovo, the crane, lapwing, mallard and Jack snipe; tho third rnngo from 1,000 to 2,000 miles such birds as tho wood chat shrike, tho stono curlow, tho woodcock and black .crn and In what Is called tho restricted area with n mileage of 1,000 mllos downward thoro aro tho waxwlngs, several gulls and tho elder duck. |
