Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 450
w or none of them. Butwhen the pines and spruces produce a small crop,then the crossbills and grosbeaks come to us inunusual numbers. It is said that herring-gulls have been knownto follow a steamer across the Atlantic. Theywere not attracted by the steamer, we may besure, but by the food which was… … THE AUTUMN FLIGHT OF THE SHORE-BIRUS ON THE MASSACHUSETTS COAST. 268 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Jan., albatross which shows how well this name isdeserved. When captured off the coast of Chile,on December 20, 1847, the bird had a small vialhung on a string about its neck. This vial con-
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