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Show LONGEST FLIGHT BY BIRDS. PKKIIAPS the longest straightaway Might mads by birds in their migrations is accomplished by some of the shore and water birds that nest Id tho Is lauds of Hering Sea and spend the winter nt Hawaii and Tanning Island, twenty-two hundred miles away. Inasmuch as some of these birds live entirely oa the shore and are probably unable to rest on the sur- face of the water. It Is thought that they must ac- foinpll.th the w hole distance In u single fllght. Yet, although there are no landmarks for them upon their long Journey oier a waMo of waters,1 hey muke their way to their destination with the reel-don of a rlfie shot. ' |