Index 



Advantages of migration, 6 

 Aerial obstructions, 76 

 Altitudes of travel, 26 

 Ancestral home theory, 8 

 Arctic route, 68 

 Aristotle, 2, 4, 5 

 Atlantic coast route, 53 

 Atlantic oceanic route, 48 

 Baldpate, 62 

 Banding studies, 81, 92 

 Blackbird, 32, 33, 60 



Brewer's, 32 



European, 4 



red-winged, 22, 32, 33, 35, 37 



rusty, 70 



yellow-headed, 32 

 Bluebird, 9, 34, 37, 81 

 Bluethroat, 19 



Bobolink, 32, 55, 56 (map), 69, 70, 71 

 Bobwhite, 32, 34, 82, 83 

 Brant, 57, 58 



Atlantic, 57 



Black, 68 

 Bullbat, 32 

 Bunting, snow, 34 

 Canvasback, 58 

 Cardinal, 34, 82 

 Chickadee, 7, 72 



black-capped, 83 



Carolina, 83 

 Chuck-wills-widow, 55 

 Clarke, W. E., 4, 6 

 Compsothlypidae, 32 

 Conclusions, 85 



Continental drift, theory of, 11 

 Coot, 55 

 Coues, Elliott, 4 

 Cowbird, 29 



Crane, 2, 4, 6, 16, 26, 27, 28 

 Creeper, brown, 75 

 Crossbill, 7, 32, 74 

 Crow, 20, 22, 32 



Clark's, 73 

 Cuckoo, black-billed, 55 



yellow-billed, 55 



Diurnal migration, 15 

 Diving birds, 16 

 Dove, 4 



mourning, 19 



turtle, 2, 6 

 Duck, 2, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 32, 33, 

 37, 42, 58, 60, 61, 62, 68 ' 



black, 20, 33, 58, 61 



eider, 68 



scaup, 58 



sea, 59, 63 

 Eel, 29 

 Egret, 73 

 Eider, 68 



Evolution of migration routes, 70 

 Exhaustion, 78 

 Falcon, peregrine, 19 

 Fall flights, 37 

 Finch, 43 



house, 82 



purple, 74 



rosy, 72 

 Fishes, 29 

 Flicker, 70 

 Flight speed, 18 

 Flycatcher, 15, 19, 31 

 Fly ways, 46 



Atlantic, 49 (map), 58 



Mississippi, 50 (map) 



Central, 51 (map) 



Pacific, 52 (mapj) 

 Gatke, Heinrich, 19 

 Goose, 2, 4, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 33, 

 59, 60, 61, 62 



blue, 22, 32, 61, 62 



cackling, 63 



Canada, 15, 21, 22 (map), 32, 

 58, 59, 81 



emperor, 68 



Ross's, 64 (map) 



snow, 32, 72 

 Gordon, Donald A., 30 

 Goshawk, 12 

 Grackle, 37 



bronzed, 32 



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