 With troops of fledglings catching their winged prey as they go and lodging by night in tall chimneys, the flocks drift slowly south joining with other bands, until on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico they become an innumerable host. Then they...  Proceedings - Page 283by Davenport (Iowa) Public Museum - 1910Full view - About this book
 | 1908 - 874 pages
...Wells W. Cooke, our American authority upon bird migration, writes : "Upon leaving the Gulf of Mexico did they drop into the water and hibernate in the...old, their obliteration could not be more complete." The meagerness of our knowledge concerning the migration of swallows is repeated to a large extent... | |
 | Brown University. Anatomical Laboratory - 1909 - 644 pages
...Wells W. Cooke, our American authority upon bird migration, writes: "Upon leaving the Gulf of Mexico did they drop into the water and hibernate in the...old, their obliteration could not be more complete." The meagerness of our knowledge concerning the migration of swallows is repeated to a large extent... | |
 | 1909 - 644 pages
...Wells W. Cooke, our American authority upon bird migration, writes: "Upon leaving the Gulf of Mexico did they drop into the water and hibernate in the...old, their obliteration could not be more complete." The meagerness of our knowledge concerning the migration of swallows is repeated to a large extent... | |
 | Isaac W. Litchfield - 1914 - 508 pages
...With troops of fledglings catching their winged prey as they go and lodging by night in tall chimneys, the flocks drift slowly south joining with other bands,...Then they disappear. Did they drop into the water or hibernate in the mud, as was believed of old, their obliteration could not be more complete. In... | |
 | 1916 - 1152 pages
...With troops of fledglings catching their winged prey as they go and lodging by night in tall chimneys, the flocks drift slowly south joining with other bands,...Then they disappear. Did they drop into the water or hibernate in the mud, as was believed of old, their obliteration could not be more complete. In... | |
 | 1914 - 1178 pages
...With troops of fledglings catching their winged prey as they go and lodging by night in tall chimneys, the flocks drift slowly south joining with other bands,...Then they disappear. Did they drop into the water or hibernate in the mud, as was believed of old, their obliteration could not be more complete. In... | |
 | 1913 - 528 pages
...troops of fledglings catching their winged prey as they go, and lodging by night in tall chimneys, the flocks drift slowly south joining with other bands,...Then they disappear. Did they drop into the water or hibernate in the mud, as was believed of old, their obliteration could not be more complete. In... | |
 | 1922 - 128 pages
...With troops of fledglings catching their winged prey as they go and lodging by night in tall chimneys, the flocks drift slowly south, joining with other...Then they disappear. Did they drop into the water or hibernate in the mud, as was believed of old, their obliteration could not be more complete. In... | |
 | Edwin Lincoln Mosely - 1922 - 440 pages
...troops of fledglings catching their winged prey as they go, and lodging by night in tall chimneys, the flocks drift slowly south, joining with other...innumerable host. Then they disappear. Did they drop to the water or hibernate in the mud as was believed of old, their obliteration could not be more complete.... | |
 | 1915 - 738 pages
...mystery of birddom. Says the report above referred to: "... the flock drifts slowly south (in the fall) joining with other bands, until on the northern coast...innumerable host. Then they disappear. Did they drop in the water or hibernate in the mud, as was believed of old, their obliteration could not be more... | |
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