 | Alfred Newton - 1893 - 610 lehte
...their proper area they are found, says Mr. Wallace (Geogr. Distr. Anim. ii. p. 341) " on the smallest islands and sand-banks, and can evidently pass over a few miles of sea with ease." Indeed proof of their roaming disposition is afforded by the fact that the bird described by Lesson... | |
 | Cecil Boden Kloss - 1903 - 532 lehte
...Lombok. The Philippine species offers little difficulty, for these birds are found on the smallest islands and sandbanks, and can evidently pass over...example of the family. Instead of being a well-marked or differentiated form, as we should expect to find if its remote and isolated habitat were due to... | |
 | 1911 - 1144 lehte
...their proper area they are found, says AR Wallace (Ceogr. Distr. Animals, ii. 541), " on the smallest islands and sandbanks, and can evidently pass over a few miles of sea with ease." Indeed, proof of their roaming disposition is afforded by the fact that the bird described by Lesson... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - 1911 - 1018 lehte
...their proper area they are found, says AR Wallace (Ceogr. Dislr. Animals, ii. 341), " on the smallest islands and sandbanks, and can evidently pass over a few miles of sea with case." Indeed, proof of their roaming disposition is afforded by the fact that the bird described by... | |
 | 1911 - 1026 lehte
...their proper area they are found, says AR Wallace (Gcogr. Distr. Animáis, ü. 341), " on the smallest islands and sandbanks, and can evidently pass over a few miles of sea with case." Indeed, proof of their roaming disposition is afforded by the fact that the bird described by... | |
 | Boden C. Kloss - 1994 - 538 lehte
...Lombok. The Philippine species offers little difficulty, for these birds are found on the smallest islands and sandbanks, and can evidently pass over...ease ; but the Nicobar bird is a very different case, becausfe none of the numerous intervening islands offer a single example of the family. Instead of... | |
 | 1911 - 1182 lehte
...their proper area they are found, says AR Wallace (Ceogr. Distr. Anitnals, ii. 341), " on the smallest islands and sandbanks, and can evidently pass over a few miles of sea with ease." Indeed, proof of their roaming disposition is afforded by the fact that the bird described by Lesson... | |
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... Philippines (where indeed they were first discovered by Europeans), Labuan, and even the Nicobars — though none is known from the intervening islands of Borneo, Java or Sumatra. Within what may be deemed their proper area they are found, says AR... 