. Handbook of birds of eastern North America; with introductory chapters on the study of birds in nature . Breeding range. Black areaâWinter range. ArrowsâMigrationroute. According to Reid, the migrant land-birds which visit the Bornuidiiswith more or less regularity are the Bolted Kingfisher, Yollow-bilh^dCuckoo, Bobolink, and Northern Water-Thrush. The last two w(torecorded by Julien* during a short stay on Sonibroro, at the northernextremity of the Lesser Antilles; and in Granada, the mosi southcTuisland of this chain, Wellsf has found the Kingfisher, Bobolink, andWater-Thrush. Possibly the
. Handbook of birds of eastern North America; with introductory chapters on the study of birds in nature . Breeding range. Black areaâWinter range. ArrowsâMigrationroute. According to Reid, the migrant land-birds which visit the Bornuidiiswith more or less regularity are the Bolted Kingfisher, Yollow-bilh^dCuckoo, Bobolink, and Northern Water-Thrush. The last two w(torecorded by Julien* during a short stay on Sonibroro, at the northernextremity of the Lesser Antilles; and in Granada, the mosi southcTuisland of this chain, Wellsf has found the Kingfisher, Bobolink, andWater-Thrush. Possibly these birds may have reached the Lesser Antilles through *Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., New York, VIII. 1864, p. U. S. Nat. Mus., IX, 1886, p. 609. 44 ROUTES OF MIGRATION Porto Rico from the westward. This route, however, is followed byonly a small portion of the birds which migrate southward, throughFlorida and the Bahamas, into the Greater Antilles. If they continuetheir journey to South America, most of them do so through Jamaica,the 400 miles of water separating this island from northern South. 1 Fig. 7. Migration of the Bobolink. A species which breeds west of the RockyMountains, but migrates through the southeastern United States, reaching SouthAmerica through the Greater Antilles and Central America. Dotted areaâBreeding range. Black areaâWinter range. ArrowsâMigrationroute. Amorira being ovid.^ntly no barrier to such great travelers as the Bobo-link and ]Ma(ki)()ll Warbler. Within the limits of the United States, coast-lines, mountainchains, and the larg(T river valleys, appear to be followed by birdsin their migrations; nevertheless, there is a more or less pronounced ROUTES OF MIGRATION 45 highway of migration which crosses the southern Alleghanies fromnorthwest to southeast. This is evidently followed by KirtlandsWarbler, which nests in northern Michigan and winters in the Bahamas,and it brings to our southeast Atlantic Coast, with more or less regular-ity, birds
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