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Show .xvx-:-t.:-i-:-x-M.M.M.M.M.M.:.x.:.x-:-x-M-M-M-:-x-:x-M-M.:.zx-M-zx- Marvelous How Eirds Wing Back to Home Bird lovers have believed for centuries cen-turies that migratory birds return to the same home, year after year. Modern Mod-ern science has proved this belief to he right. Birds are caught in traps that do not hurt them, marked with tiny leg hands of aluminum, each hearing hear-ing a number, and released. Next year, the same birds are caught again in the same locality, often when occupying oc-cupying the same nest. Evidently, a bird's memory for direction di-rection and location must be quite us marvelous as the older writers believed. be-lieved. The catbird winters us far south as Panama, yet catbirds marked in northern Ohio came back to the same neighborhood, year after year. Sometimes they move a few rods or I furlongs, but the frequency with which they return to the very spot Is i astounding. j Cats find their way back to the old 1 home across a township, horses across a county or two. and do;s have been known to pass through several states In returning to a beloved master, but birds find their way across a "continent, "con-tinent, and sometimes -over a sea as Weil. |