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LIST OF MAPS

FACING PAGE
Map showing the range of the American Golden Plover,
with its known migration route
(From The National Geographic Magazine.)
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Map showing the evolution of the migration route of the
American Golden Plover
(From The National Geographic Magazine.)
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Map showing the evolution of the migration route of the
Eastern or Pacific Golden Plover
(From The National Geographic Magazine.)
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Map to show that a bird leaving Norway, near Aalsund.
might be carried round the British Islands in twenty-
four hours. The arrows indicate the actual directions
and force of wind at the times marked during a slow-
travelling circular storm in autumn 1901. Speed of
bird about twenty-five miles per hour
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