Contributions Of The Fauna Of South Georgia

Author : Einar Lönnberg
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230008127
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Contributions to the Fauna of South Georgia; Taxonomic and Biological Notes on Vertebrates. with 12 Plates and 7 Figures in the Text written by Einar Lönnberg and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...as such on the South Orkneys: Aptenodytes patachonica, Garrodia nereis, M ajaqueus wquinoctialis, Prion banksi, Pelecanoides urinatrizr, Diomerlea exulcms, Phoebetria fuliginosa oornicoides. On the contrary, the South Orkneys possess only two breeding species which are not at home on South Georgia, vizjthe true antarctic Pygoscelis adeliw and the south-american Sterna hirundinacea which appears to extend even further south. Pygoscelis antarctica, Pagodroma and several other species are, however, much more numerous on the South Orkneys than on South Georgia. Possibly Eudyptes chrysolophus and Thalassoeca antarctica also breed on the South Orkneys. Among the regular visitors of the South Georgia sea Diomedea melmwphrys and Thalassogeron culminatus appear to be missing at the South Orkneys. I Pygoscclis papua, Cathmurta antarcum and Larus domiuiranus. The avifauna of the South Shetlands and Graham land resembles that of the South Orkneys. Priocella glacialoides is added (8) as breeder, the stately Emperor penguin is also to be seen there, but Fregetta m-elanogaster is to be subtracted, from the list. Otherwise the conditions are, on the whole, similar. Kerguelen land has only circumpolar species in common with South Georgia. Its fauna is richer, and it has also its own endemic species. In the following the birds of South Georgia are enumerated and notes on their habits are communicated from SoRLING's observations with references to other authors. But before this is done, it is too tempting to be avoided to make with a few words a comparison between the bird-life at the northern and southern extremes of the At'lantic hemisphere, the Pacific being entirely left out not to complicate matters. It is axiomatic that the analogies in climatic...