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Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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JTor Ceacl)er0 anD ^tutient0 The Migration of Warblers ELEVENTH PAPER Compiled by Professor W. W. Cooke, Chiefly from Data in the Biological Survey With drawines by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER A few Black-and-white Warblers winter in Southern Florida, so thatthe only way of knowing the beginnings of spring migration in that dis-trict is from the records of the striking of the birds at the lighthouses.Both at Alligator Reef and at Sombrero Key lighthouses in SouthernFlorida, this species begins to strike early in March. Thence, northwardthe progress is so slow — an average of twenty miles per day — that it is themiddle of May before the species has reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence. SPRING MIGRATION Atlantic Coast — Northern Florida Atlanta, Ga. (near) Frogmore, Ga. (near) . . . Raleigh, N. C. Asheville, N. C. (near) French Creek, W. Va Washington, D. C Beaver, Pa Renovo, Pa Germantown, Pa. Englewood, N.J. . ... Southeastern New York Central Co

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