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MAP SHOWING THK EVOLUTION OF THE PRESENT MIGRATION ROUTE OF THE GOLDEN 



PLOVER (SEE PAGE 356) 



base of the Alaska peninsula (page 359). 

 It winters on the mainland of southeast- 

 ern Asia, in the eastern half of Australia, 

 and throughout the islands of Oceanica, 

 from Formosa and the Liu Kiu Islands 

 on the northwest to the Low Archipelago 

 in the southeast. 



The breeding range has an east-and- 

 west extension of about 1,700 miles, 

 while the winter home extends nearly 

 half around the globe — 10,000 miles — 

 from India to the Low Archipelago. 

 Undoubtedly the original migration route 

 was approximately north and south, be- 



