قراءة كتاب The Avifauna of Micronesia, Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution

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The Avifauna of Micronesia, Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution

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Baker Rollin H (Rollin Harold)

دار النشر: Project Gutenberg

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class="smcap">Conservation of the Avifauna of Micronesia

58 The Future of Ornithological Research in Micronesia 60 Methods and Acknowledgments 60 Accounts of the Kinds of Birds in Micronesia 63 Summary and Conclusions 340 Bibliography 343

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Figure		Page
1.	The islands of Micronesia.	6
2.	The Mariana Islands.	12
3.	The Palau Islands.	13
4.	The Caroline Islands.	15
5.	The Marshall Islands.	16
6.	Routes of migration used by shore birds in the Pacific.	34
7.	Avifaunal regions of the central Pacific.	43
8.	Faunal areas from which Micronesian birds have been derived.	46
9.	Routes of dispersal of rails in the Pacific area.	120
10.	Variation in length of culmen of Sterna s. sumatrana.	159
11.	Geographic distribution of Thalasseus bergii.	164
12.	Geographic distribution of Gygis alba in the Pacific.	177
13.	Distribution and dispersal of Ptilinopus porphyraceus.	190
14.	Distribution and dispersal of Gallicolumba in the Pacific.	204
15.	Distribution and dispersal of Acrocephalus in the Pacific.	260
16.	Distribution and dispersal of Myzomela in the Pacific.	316

Birds in Micronesia comprise the most outstanding animal life of the islands, as far as vertebrates are concerned. No fewer than 206 kinds, belonging to 37 families and 91 genera have been found there. Although this number upon first consideration may seem large, actually any large land mass in the same latitude has many more kinds of birds than does Micronesia. In this connection it is pertinent to recall that the islands of Micronesia are oceanic and have apparently been formed independently of any continental land mass. Thus, animal life

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