ROUTES OF MIGRATION 



43 



Species that reach South America or Panama: 



By way of the West Indies 10 



By an unknown route 7 



By way of the Gulf of Mexico 49 



There is apparently, also, a small off-shore or southeastward" flight 

 to the eastward of Florida leading into and through the Bahamas, 

 and possibly even farther east. 



West Indies. 



Dotted area Breeding range. Black area Winter range. Arrows Migration 

 route. 



According to Reid, the migrant land-birds which visit the Bermudas 

 with more or less regularity are the Belted Kingfisher, Yellow-billed 

 Cuckoo, Bobolink, and Northern Water-Thrush. The last two were 

 recorded by Julien* during a short stay on Sombrero, at the northern 

 extremity of the Lesser Antilles; and in Granada, the most southern 

 island of this chain, Wellsf has found the Kingfisher, Bobolink, and 

 Water-Thrush. 



Possibly these birds may have reached the Lesser Antilles through 



*Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., New York, VIII, 1864, p. 92. 

 >c. U. S. Nat. Mus., IX, 1886, p. 609. 



