Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 592
Florida to the Bahamas. Afifth, which is one of the most remarkable of any,crosses the Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia toSouth America. Some birds spend the entire winter at sea.Indeed, they may never put foot on land exceptwhen they visit it to nest. Frequently, in goingby steamer to Florida or… … THE RED PHALAROPE. August until May, feeding on small forms of sealife and sleeping in the cradle of the deep.With them were many loons. We think of theseweird-voiced birds as solitary dwellers on wood-land lakes, but off the coast of Virginia I haveseen as many as five thousand in a day. The…
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