Turdus migratorius, as the doctor would say," remarked Burt; "and migrants they are with a vengeance.
Think of that, ye maiden of New England, where the males are nearly all migrants and do not return!
Marvin's suggestion, had fastened in the trees, been occupied by wrens and bluebirds, but larger homes had been taken for the summer by migrants from the city.
Those that remain with us depart for the North at the first tokens of spring, and are replaced by myriads of other migrants that usually arrive early in March.
Sparrows are such gregarious birds that it is well to scrutinize every flock with especial care in the spring and autumn, when the rarer migrants are passing.
If you have only a city yard with a few sickly trees in it, you will find great delight in noting the numerous stragglers from the great army of spring and autumn migrants that find their way there.
Below, through the woods, myriads of robins were flying about, migrants from the North.
Larger migrants than he, in search of fare so attractive, distribute the seeds far and wide.
Game birds, migrants and rovers, which feed upon the seeds, have of course helped in their wider distribution.
Only twenty-one species pertain to the Arctic Ocean, whether as regular migrants or stragglers, after excluding the twelve species which were observed near the Asiatic coast.
Almost all such species are migrants, but many migrants have different temporal characteristics, and the categories thus are shown to be discrete on the basis of temperature at time of breeding.
Any migrant tends to arrive on breeding grounds relatively late, hence migrants ordinarily have higher index values than do residents.
These birds are one of the latest of the migrants to arrive, reaching northern United States about the last of May, but coming in such numbers that they are found everywhere.
It is remarkable that we are apt to mistake sometimes for Lusitanian migrants species which are of Oriental origin.
I should have mentioned that the species wandering westward and northward from this South-European centre of distribution, would naturally have joined the migrants which came from beyond the borders of our continent.
I mentioned the fact that some of the Siberian migrants have remained in England, that more have settled down permanently on our continent, but that many others have either become entirely extinct or do not live any longer in Europe.
Among the older Oriental bird migrants might be mentioned the Fire-crested Wren (Regulus ignicapillus), which has even occasionally visited England.
The plants were all supposed to have been killed or driven away by the arctic temperature of the Glacial period, and their place taken by new migrants from the north or east when the climate ameliorated.
The earlier migrants therefore went westward and the later ones northward.
Let us now follow one of the miocene Oriental migrants starting from Central Asia on its way to Europe.
The Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) and the Snow Bunting are alsomigrants from the north.
The arrows in the map indicate the directions followed by the differentmigrants as they travelled to the British Islands.
By this means we are able to study the component elements of the European fauna, which is found to consist to a large extent of migrants from the neighbouring continents.
I have already indicated in the last chapter how these pseudo-Lusitanian migrants originated.
It is important to note its absence from Spain, the Mediterranean islands, and Ireland; and we have learned that it is one of those Siberian migrants which have succeeded in establishing themselves in the Alps.
In discussing the component elements of the British fauna and flora in the third chapter, I have already referred to the distinguishing characters of the Lusitanian migrants and to their distribution.
There can be no doubt that some of the species which we regard as Siberian migrants had their original home in more southern latitudes, and thus may have formed part of the older Oriental migration.
In this manner many animals of European origin have joined the Oriental migrants in their westward and also in their later northward travels.
They are the last of all our migrants to leave us in autumn, and invariably reappear in small numbers about the houses on every warm day in winter.
The destination of the majority of these migrants is Tibet or Siberia, but a few are satisfied with the cool slopes of the Himalayas as a summer resort in which to busy themselves with the sweet cares of nesting.
Besides these regular migrants there are many species which spend a few days or weeks in the plains, leaving the Himalayas when the weather there becomes very inclement.
Along with the other migrants come numbers of rooks and jackdaws.
Examples of these more local migrants are the grey-headed and the verditer flycatchers, the Indian bush-chat and, to some extent, the paradise flycatcher and the Indian oriole.
Some of these migrants are noticed in the calendar for December.
They aremigrants throughout the Central and Southern states and winter primarily in Central America.
They are erratic wintermigrants to the eastern forest types.
These three are migrants in the fullest sense, and come to our houses over thousands of miles of land and sea.
So the roof has its natural history, its science, and art; it has its seasons, its migrants and residents, of whom a housetop calendar might be made.
This is not the case with aquatic species, which are nearly all migrants from noisier regions, and mass themselves in lagoons and marshes, where they are all loquacious together.
Wagtails are all migrants and arrive in Hungary in great numbers.
Their leisurely movements contrast strongly with the bustling activities of the local Nuttalls; for the latter are burdened with the care of children, before the Alaskan migrantshave forsworn bachelorhood.
In eastern Washington, it is confined for the most part to the region of pine timber in summer, and altho it also winters here irregularly, the numbers in this part of the State are largely augmented by migrants during May and September.
These migrants may be destined for our own mountains as well as British Columbia.
These include not only the permanent residents and regular migrants to our country, but also those which occasionally straggle here, so that it really comprises a large proportion of all European birds.
This latter month brings the migrants back in constantly increasing numbers, amongst which we may mention the Redstart, the Whinchat, the Willow Wren, the Wryneck, and the Cuckoo.
In summer few birds frequent the place; in autumn it is a grand resort of birds, being in the direct pathway of that vast stream of migrants that flows across the wild North Sea from regions possibly as remote as Siberia.
Flocks of this bird have been recorded from Redcar towards the end of September, and there is other evidence to suggest that our resident individuals are increased in numbers by migrants from the Continent.
Then during the wild winter months many parts of the sea off the northern shires teem with bird-life, much of it consisting of migrants from the arctic regions.
The mortality amongst these autumn migrants can scarcely be over-estimated.
Variety is, however, furnished in the numbers of the several species that so migrate, in the dates of their movements, and also in the occurrences of those abnormal migrants for which these shires have an exceptionally abundant share.
We may remark that many of our more familiar summer migrants continue to pass the northern shires well into May--individuals bound for higher latitudes than Britain.
Of the Gull tribe, perhaps the most characteristic moorland species are the Skuas, two species of which are summer migrants to certain of our wildest Highland moors.
All are summer migrants only to the British Islands.
There are many other migrants that enter our islands by way of the Wash, some of them specially interesting.
Mind you, this place is the government's fixing, to give migrants a chance to take root again.
Lately, though, there have been moremigrants than ever.
The first group of interstellar migrants didn't have to go anywhere near Titan.
Under Harwell's commands, the colossal craft kept taking onmigrants at top speed for thirty hours.
Interplanetary craft were moving out in a steady stream, transporting migrants and the prefabricated parts needed to set up a vast glassed-in camp that few of the old blood could ever have tried to build.
Some of these other traits may be explained by the influence of different environments acting over long periods of time, but others point to an admixture of non-Mongoloid features in some of the earliest migrants to these areas.
That it results in the death of the great majority of the migrants is doubtless true, but it must lead to vast experiments in extending the geographic area inhabited by these species.
It is probable that many of those seen here have flown from considerably farther south, and that these migrants lay eggs from which a brood of butterflies develops, these native born appearing late in summer.
What themigrants themselves think about it, goes to the very heart of the trouble.
Mr. Abraham Epstein, who has written a valuable pamphlet setting forth his researches in Pittsburgh, states that the migrants of that city do not generally imbibe and most of those who do, take beer only.
On the whole, however, these migrants are not lazy, shiftless and desperate as some predicted that they would be.
Through a local worker these migrants are approached, properly placed and supervised until they can adjust themselves to the community without apparent embarrassment to either race.
Eventually the Negro migrants will, no doubt, without much difficulty establish themselves among law-abiding and industrious people of the North where they will receive assistance.
The League has been able to handle the migrants arriving by extending the work so as to know their movements beforehand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "migrants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
