Migration
in zoölogy, ornithology, etc., a term applied to the periodical or irregular movements of all animals, especially to those of birds and fishes, for though the movements of some mam-ince of Milan, and the former capital of mals correspond in some degree to Lombardy. The most remarkable among those of birds, they are rather incursions than true migrations. Most of the birds that spend their spring and summer in the temperate parts of the United States pass the winter in the far S.; the winter visitants pass the summer in the ex- treme N., some of them breeding in Greenland, Lapland, or Iceland. Many sea fishes migrate to a limited extent for the purpose of depositing their spawn in favorable situations.
In botany, many seeds have downy or wind blows influence their motion through the air; others are floated down rivers and the ocean casts them on distant shores. are its public buildings are the cathedral, an imposing Gothic structure, inferior only to that of St. Peter's at Rome, or St.
Paul's of London, being 485 feet long, 252 feet broad, and height of dome 355 feet, adorned with over 4,500 statues; the church of St. Ambrose, in which the German emperors usually received the Lombard crown; the Palazzo del Corte, the model of the amphitheater at Rome. or royal palace, and the Teatro della the Brera arena built by Napoleon I. in 1806, on the model of the amphitheater at Rome.
Principal institutions Palace, which has a library of over 140,containing a library of over 95,000 volumes, and 15,000 MSS. Attached to containing works by Titian, Da Vinci, the latter is also a gallery of paintings, Luini, Albano, etc., and sketches by ribbons, laces, carpets, glass, paper, etc. vaggio. Manufactures velvets, silks, Raphael, Pietro de ribbons, laces, carpets, glass, paper, etc.
Milan is the center of the silk trade of northern Italy. Milan (ancient Medioby the Gauls, was annexed to the Roman dominions by Scipio Nascica, 191 by the Gauls, was annexed to the Ro- B. C. In the 4th century, it held the rank of the 6th city of the Roman empire.
Pop. about 700,000. tant shores.
RISTO, DOM, Duke of Braganza, and so-called King of Portugal; born in Lisbon, Portugal, Oct. 26, 1802; son of bon, Portugal, Oct. 26, 1802; son of royal family to Brazil, grated with the roya and when his father succeeded to the times against him, and was banished.
On the death of John, in 1826, Miguel was made regent. He seized the throne to which Maria da Gloria was heir. A revolution broke out and Dom Miguel after defeat was compelled to sign, in 1834, a capitulation and return to Portugal. He died at Brombach, Baden, Nov. 14, 1866. gal. He died at Brombach, Baden, Nov. exalted), poetic title of the Emperor of Japan. Yoshihito, the present ruler, is the 122d or 124th of his line, founded about 660 в. c. Seven of the mikados were women. the 122d or 124th of his line, founded about 660 B. C. Seven of the mikados were women.
Christian XI. Land in 1900 and in the Baldwin-Ziegler expedition to Franz Josef Land in 1900 and 1902. He and Leffing well directed an Anglo-American expedition into the Arctic in 1906-1907, spending the winter there. He organized an expedition to survey the N. E. coast of Greenland in 1910, in which he lost his ship, and returned to within reach spending the winter there. He organized an expedition to survey the N. E. coast of Greenland in 1910, in which he lost and "Lost in the Arctic" (1913). ib de Cortona, and Cara- MILAN I., King of Serbia; born in Jassy, Moldavia, Aug. 22, 1854. He studied at Paris, at the Lycée Louis-le- Grand. The assassination of his cousin, Prince Michael, caused his recall to Serbia, where he was proclaimed prince at the age of 14. A Council of Regency prince came of age. In 1875 he married administered the government till the Natalie, Princess of Stourdza, from whom he was afterward divorced, and by whom he had a son, who became King Alexander. Owing to the troubles arising out of disagreement with the queen, he abdicated in favor of his son, March Natalie in 1893, and in 1894, despite his ing out of disagreement with the queen, he abdicated in favor of his son, March Na pledge to the contrary, he returned to Belgrade. He died in Vienna, Feb. 11,