ROUTES OF MIGRATION 43 
Species that reach South America or Panama: 
By way of the West Indies..............ccc cee eees 10 
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By way of the Gulf of Mexico............000ceeeeee 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. 
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Fia. 6. Migration of the Mourning Warbler. A species which breeds as far 
northeast as Nova Scotia, but migrates southwestward, reaching South America 
through Mexico and Central America, and avoiding the South Atlantic States and 
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, Wellst has found the Kingfisher, Bobolink, and 
Water-Thrush. 
Possibly these birds may have reached the Lesser Antilles through 
*Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist., New York, VIII, 1864, p. 93. 
{Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IX, 1886, p. 609, 
