The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-02
LONG TRIP
 FOR FLOWERS
THESE GREAT TRAVELLERS COVER
 ANNUALLY 10.OO0 MILES.
Hudson Bny to ArKentina--The Birds on Their Way south Travel Most of the Way Over the Sea Many
 Miles from Land.

New York Sun.
 The greatest of travellers is on his way back from the land of his birth to his adopted home, Ten thousand miles is & long stretch to cover with ones family for the purpose of enjoy ing a summer unmarred by burning heat, but this trip he takes annually, covering another 10000 miles In going home.
 Others may trot the globe once in a lifetime. With this traveller it is diff- erent. wintering in Argentina, he spends ten weeks Of every summer on the frozen coasts of Northern America. we'll within the Arctic Circle.
 This year the travellers reached their summerlng place about the middle of June and they have just turned their faces back to the South. Tn remark ably short time they will have arrived home. the delights of which they will reVeI In until March, then they will again start for the Nerth.
 This tireless traveller Is one of the most remarkable little creatures in the whole bird reaim--the American golden blower. Much Of the Knowledge that man has acquired of the travels of this bird Is recent and scientists are still trying to establish short connect- ing links in its known itinerary. which Is broken on the northern bound trip in one place and in one place on the southern bound trip.
 For this purpose observations are being made at series of posts in British Guiana this month and fin DOT tfons of Brazil and along the coast of the latter country to ascertain what course is pursued by the bird after striking the northern coast of South America to reach it's winter home, hun dreds of miles farther down the con- tinent. It Is believed that this course is over the land and almost directly southerly. but this detail will not be accepted by science until established by direct testimony.
 The United States government re- gards the story of the golden plover as of such importance to natural his- tory that It's agents have made careful study Of the bird.
 Winters lm south America.
 After having spenit the months of October, November, December, January, and February, which constitute the summer of the Southern Hemisphere, in Argentina. Paraguay, Uruguay and the northern part of Patagonia, the American golden p1over's thoughts be- gin to turn to it's annual tour. Through the length and breadth of ploverdom sound the tidings of the approaching trip.
 A few days after they have made up their minds that 1t Is time to be off the blower begin to leave their winter home, crossing Bolivia, a corner of Brasil, a corner of Peru, through Ec- uador up close to the Colombian bound1 dary. Here is where one of the breaks. so far as mans information is concern eds occurs.
 Whether the blower strike out across the neck of the aPcific to the coast of the upper end of Central America or proceed through Colombia and by the Isthmus in not decisively determined Belief inclines to the latter theory and Is founded principally on the fact that the northernbound Journey is evidently an all-land trip, with the exception of the Gulf crossing.
 At any rate, if we lose the trail of