The Audubon Societies i6i 



A. Route of Golden Plover and Some of the Wading Birds: 



Nest in Arctic Circle up to 8i° in June; Labrador in August; coast of Nova Scotia; 

 1, 800 miles over Atlantic ocean to eastern West Indies; 600 miles to eastern coast of 

 South America; southern Brazil and the prairie region of Argentina, September to 

 March; Guatemala and Texas in March; prairies of the Mississippi Valley in April; 

 Northern United States and to the Arctic Circle in May. Route from Argentina and 

 Brazil to Texas and Guatemala not yet known. 16,000-mile trip. 



Atlantic Coast Route of Fifty New England Species: 



Follow coast from New England to Florida; i. Florida through Bahamas or Cuba, 

 to Hayti; Hayti to Porto Rico, Lesser Antilles and South America. 2. Florida to Cuba, 

 Jamaica and South America. 3. "Bobolink route," Cuba direct to South America. 



Note. — From New England to South America, 2,000 miles; from Florida to Cuba, 

 150 miles; from Cuba to Jamaica, 90 miles; from Cuba direct to South America, 700 

 miles. 



C. — Atlantic Coast Route of Most Eastern Species: 



Atlantic Coast to Florida; northwestern Florida southwest, across Gulf of Mexico, 

 700 miles; Central and South America. 



Note. — Very few species take the easier passage along the Florida coast to Cuba, 

 Yucatan, and, so on, to Central and South America. 



D. — Mississippi Valley Route: 



Louisiana; Gulf of Mexico at its widest point; Central and South America. 



Note. — Species from Middle States use this route. 



E. — Plains and Rocky M ountains Route to Mexico and Central America. 



F. — Pacific Coast Route to Mexico and Central America. 



Note: — Migratory routes of many ocean species unknown. 



Drawing teachers might easily take advantage of this opportunity to have 

 pupils draw carefully the map of North and South America, marking in heavy 

 or colored lines the migration routes of our birds, and distinguishing in some 

 fashion their respective points of departure and destination. 



Indeed, what a very pleasant task teaching and studying would be, if all 

 the hard, dry facts in books were made clear and vivid by presenting real^ 

 live, activities of the great world, in which each thing and each creature has a 

 part to play. 



Note. — Routes of Migration as given above are taken from data gathered by Mr. 

 Wells Cooke: "Some New Facts about the Migration of Birds." 

 See "Yearbook of Department of Agriculture, 1903." 



The Story of a Hummingbird 



From the middle of May until late in September, or even the first of October, 

 the smallest bird we know visits our flowers and blossoming vines in search of 

 nectar and insects. Measure on a piece of paper three and a fourth inches, 

 which is the length of this tiny creature from the tip of its long tube-like bill 

 to the very end of its short tail. 



With a whirr and a flash, it comes and goes, hovering and poising on its 

 swiftly beating wings, now searching a morning-glory cup, now a nasturtium. 



