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BULLETIN" 185, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



California on the east, and 3,700 miles from Japan on the west. And 

 yet year after year golden plover in considerable numbers fly in fall 



Fig. 7. — Breeding range and migration routes of the Connecticut warbler (Oporornis agilis). Breeding 

 in northern United States "and southern Canada, it migrates east in fall to New England, then follows 

 the Atlantic coast to Florida and across the West Indies to the winter home in South America. In 

 spring after its return to Florida it crosses the Allegheny Mountains and passes up the Mississippi Valley 

 to its summer home. (See p. 21.) 



from Alaska to Hawaii, spend the winter there, and the next spring 

 wing their way back again to nest in Alaska. 



