1815 J. G. Spurzheim Physiognom. Syst. viii. 293 Other instincts of animals, as those of singing and migrating, belong to the knowing faculties.

1854 W. J. Linton tr. V. Hugo in Examiner 21 Jan. 37/2 Knows he not, stork! the hour thy migratings begin?

1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) IV. 18 Diagram showing the main migrating routes of the littoral..birds of Europe.

1892 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation (new ed.) I. xiv. 371 The Gastrula..is originally capable of migrating, owing to its garb of movable ‘flimmer-hairs’.

1951 Ecology 32 158/2 W. S. Wright..passed through three distinct migrating paths [of butterflies] in one afternoon in driving 60 miles east from San Diego.

1990 Strad June 449 (advt.) Following his migrating to the U.S.A., George Maxman became Concert Master of the Texas Opera Theatre in Houston.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Migrating-Birds.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Migrating-Bog. These soft masses of earth have been sometimes known to move out of their place.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 326 Of all migrating fish, the herring and the pilchard take the most adventurous voyages.

1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. xliv. 329 The whole body of the migrating people.

1801 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. II. 66 Wandering Mouse. Mus Vagus... This..is frequent throughout the whole Tartarian desert, and is of a migrating nature.

1824 S. Afr. Jrnl. Jan.–Feb. 1. 72 On the approach of the Trek-Bokken or migrating spring-boks, the grazier makes up his mind to look for pasturage elsewhere.

1842 E. Sargent What's to be Done? iv. 46 It was after noonday before the migrating party reached Mrs. Bangs's house in Cravenstreet.

1870 H. Power tr. S. Stricker Man. Human & Compar. Histol. I. ii. 54 Von Recklinghausen first observed the presence of migrating cells in the connective tissue.

1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xiv. 167 A native policeman..looked up at me with orientally pitiful eyes as though his migrating spirit were suffering exceedingly from that unforeseen—what d'ye call 'em?—avatar—incarnation.

1911 Ann. Math. 12 173 Migrating particles can produce no change in a perfectly homogeneous liquid.

1931 C. F. Jones S. Amer. 366 Government concessions to permanent ranchers, who do not desire the migrating flocks,..are reducing transhumance.

1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. i. 16 Shearers and overlanders (‘drovers’ or, in later use, ‘migrating settlers’) did not stop at state boundaries.

1992 Organometallics 11 1140/1 A..1,3-rearrangement (with inversion of configuration at the migrating carbon substituent).

2000 Guardian 29 May i. 15/2 As wetlands along the coast were surrendered to the developers' dollar, the Salton Sea became increasingly vital to migrating birds on the Pacific Flyway.