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ent route for the spring migration than that which 

 they took in the fall. The Golden Plover, which 

 flies in the fall from Nova Scotia to South Amer- 

 ica, wintering in Argentina, and the Bobolink, who 

 flies south via Cuba and Jamaica, wintering in 

 Paraguay, will return by the same route, new to 

 both, close to the Andes, through Venezuela and 

 Southern Mexico, cutting straight across the Gulf 

 to Louisiana. 



''The Marbled Godwit is another of the migra- 

 tion puzzles of the world, for birds from the same 

 district will follow one of two entirely different 

 routes — either by Nova Scotia and the Atlantic 

 seaboard, or by British Columbia and the Pacific 

 seaboard. Yet, no matter which route is taken, 

 all the Marbled Godwits winter in Guatemala. 

 Two birds may have nested within a mile of each 

 other in the summer and be spending their winters 

 as near neighbors again, but, in order to get to 

 their respective homes, they have taken journeys 

 which lie three thousand miles apart. 



''The Connecticut Warbler, going up to nest in 

 Canada in the spring, strikes straight north up the 

 Mississippi Valley after he has crossed the Gulf, 

 but, in the fall, he seeks his summer home by an 

 initial eastward flight of a thousand miles into 



