OUR GREATEST TRAVELERS 
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MAP TO EXPLAIN HOW THE GOLDEN PLOVER IS ABLE TO NAVIGATE TO THE HAWAIIAN 
ISLANDS IN THE MID-PACIFIC (SEE PAGES 187 AND 188) 
The longest ocean trip without any possibility of resting is shown in this map. This is 
the same distance as traversed by the Atlantic plover, but the latter can get to land when in 
trouble. The dotted lines along the Arctic coast show the breeding range of the bird. 
the Midway Islands to Japan, it would 
be natural that the place of alighting on 
the Asiatic coast should be gradually 
carried north and east until the direct 
flight was made from the Midway Is- 
lands to the Aleutians (No. 4). A natu- 
ral and easy carrying of this line east- 
ward would result in the present route 
(No. 5) between Hawaii and Alaska. 
NEIGHBORS AND STRANGERS 
Both the American and Pacific golden 
plovers nest in Alaska near Bering Strait, 
the former on the north and the latter 
on the south side of the strait. The 
American bird reached there by a west- 
ward extension from Canada, and the 
Pacific by an eastward extension from 
Siberia. The birds themselves are so 
nearly alike that only an expert can dis- 
tinguish them; and, notwithstanding they 
are such near neighbors during the sum- 
mer—scarcely a hundred miles apart— 
the beginning of migration makes them 
utter strangers; for those north of the 
strait travel 3,000 miles east and then 
