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Show LAND Exhausted, They Alight by Thousands on Decks of Ocean Liner 1 j UIVF.RPOOU Dec ! (By Th.: Associated As-sociated Press.) Thousands of American Amer-ican land birds, blown I" a by unfavorable winds, sought safety on the decks of the Cunard iim r Scythlal on hr last trip from New York, and j 1 n board until she docked in Liverpool. When misfortune overtook! the feathered travelers they were migrating, mi-grating, probably from the north Atlantic At-lantic states to the warm lands bordering bor-dering on the Caribbean. Now many of them again arc free, but ln England, Eng-land, thousands of miles, from their destination, and those supposed to lo wise In bird lore have not yet been able !, jive satisfactory answers to the questions of interested passengers as to whether the birds would still en-j deavor t" reach their summer haunts in the West Indies or jolu the robins and linnets of England hi their win-' ter (light to southern Frauco and 1 j northern Africa. : j Th- great flork. several thousand In 'number, settled on the Sythla's decks when the steamer was about i"0 miles from the American shore, and trans-formed trans-formed her Into a lloatlng aviary. Wild canarb s. robins, llnneto, thrushes, sand pipers and Juncos, fluttered I around the decks, perched on tho rlg- jglng. and even penetrated the lounges and engine room. The passengers and crew cared for them, giving them I warmth, food nnd shelter, but even so many of the smaller birds died from exhaustion Three owls and a score 'of pigeons were easily captured. Old sea travelers say they never 1 have known birds to alight before tn such large numbers on a nlngle ship |