Excerpt from The Osprey, Vol. 5: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Popular Ornithology; November and December, 1900 I am led to believe, from the observations which we were able to make, that death of birds in this manner is in no wise caused, as in the case of lighthouses, by attraction, but rather by the inability of birds when flying with a breeze to gage the distance in time to avoid meeting death. In one case, a Great Blue Heron was seen to have a very close call for his life, by trusting himself too near. The startled cry that he uttered as he, by a narrow margin, escaped showed that he fully realized his danger. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.