ROUTES OF MIGRATION 
43 
Species that reach South America or Panama: 
By way of the W est 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. 
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, Wells f 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. 
f Proc. U. S. Nat , Mus ., IX, 1886, p. 609. 
