migratorn.

1767 H. Jerningham Let. 28 Nov. in L. Kinnaird Spain in Mississippi Valley (1949) 36 The adventurers Would ship themselves as migrators.

1818 P. B. Shelley Let. 25 July (1964) II. 25 It would be a little dangerous to the newly unfrozen senses and imaginations of us migrators from the neighbourhood of the pole.

1836 W. Swainson On Nat. Hist. & Classif. Birds I. i. iii. 97 The swallows..are..both the swiftest and the most distant migrators.

1852 C. A. Bristed Five Years Eng. University (ed. 2) 100 A migration is generally tantamount to a confession of inferiority, and acknowledgement that the migrator is not likely to become a Fellow of his own College.

1889 R. B. Anderson tr. V. Rydberg Teutonic Mythol. 31 Everywhere this great multitude of migrators was well received by the inhabitants.

1909 Mod. Lang. Notes 24 3 They in turn had to yield to the third and last body of migrators, the Milesians, from whom are descended the chief Gaelic families.

1947 Ecology 28 398/2 This genus [sc. Tsuga]..is a slow migrator, and only small amounts of it are found in the pollen profiles of northern Ohio.

1971 Sci. Amer. July 93/1 In the west the rainfall is higher... This is where the migrators move at the beginning of the dry season.

1990 Jrnl. Plankton Res. 12 1223 Euphausiids are generally regarded as being vertical migrators.