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I FEAR I may be attempting to trespass too frequently on the columns of NATURE recently, but the paper in vol. xxiii. p. 387 on the subject of wagtails taking a passage on the backs of cranes in a long flight, resembles so much a somewhat similar story told and believed in by the Indians in several parts of North America, that I venture to send you an account of it.
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RAE, J. Migration of the Wagtail. Nature 23, 411 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023411b0
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