Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 94
is reallynecessary for the birds to go. They leavetheir winter homes (perhaps in Mexico) whenthere is no perceptible change in the weather,and return from their breeding-grounds inmost cases while their food-supply is at itsvery height—long before it is cold or the grassand weed seeds and insects… … A HUMMING-BIRD EXTRACTING NECTAR FROM THE HONEYSUCKLE. tell of a vast colony of sea-birds I once visitedfar up in the Bering Sea, on a volcanic islandcalled Bogoslof. There is always a densefog in this sea, and the island is alwaysshrouded in steam. Yet, as our ship ap-proached, more and more birds…
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