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Show SHORE BIRDS ARE MYSTERY Less Is Known About Their Breeding Haunts and Habits Than of Any Other Feathered Tribe. Swift and tireless of flight, late ia May, the hordes of migrant shore birds are gone as suddenly as they appeared. No one sees them go; prob-ably prob-ably the start is in the evening. But by the time we miss them they may be q thousand miles farther to the north that is, when they have really decided decid-ed to be on the move. Previously theji may have fed leisurely along from, beach to beach, and marsh to marsh recuperating from their long flight across southern sens. But now the ver-i nal Influence sounds the clarion call, and they forthwith strike the real limi.' coline pace. Where do they go? Less Is knowa about the breeding-haunts and habits of this mysterious tribe than of any other in the system of ornithology. While a very few of the species linger, on our southern coasts, the great mass of them to push on for the far north, Nor do the bulk of them stop till they, are where the curiosity of man can seldom disturb their privacy. The eggs and nesting habits of a number of these species are hardly known to sci-. ence. Their summer home is the bar- i-en ground around the Arctic sea. In the damp moss near some pool npon the cold ground still frozen under-jneath, under-jneath, in the early part of June they scratch a slight hollow, build a rude, Trail nest of grass and lay four eggs, byriform or pear-shaped, drab colored land heavily blotched with black or brown. All Outdoors. |