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That harbinger of winter-robin redbreast-is on the wing, flying south. For Guatemalans, the first robins can be as sure a sign of coming winter as it is a traditional herald of spring when it flies nortlr'with the melting of snow in Dlinois and New Jersey. « The robin is only one among the thousands of species of birds billions strong now taking to the air in another repeat performance of one of nature’s greatest spectaculars: the twice-yearly migration of the birds.
After centuries of watching in wonderment jjjn^still does not exactly know how or why birds may fly perhaps a third or more the width of the world every autumn, and then return to their breeding grounds-some to the same nest -in the spring. Fanciful Theories
But scientists think they finally may be closer to solving the mystery, with theories that may sound as fanciful as the explanations of the ancients, the National Geographic Society says.
Aristotle and othei philosopher-naturalists of Greece noted the migrations, but thought swallows and some other bird; spent the winter in hibernation 01 sleeping in hollow trees, caves, 01 even beneath mud in marshes.
New England’s famed Puritar preacher, Cotton Mather proclaimed “The Wild Pigeons or Leaving us Repair to Some
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