Studies of Mascarene Island birds /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987. |
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| Description: | 458 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/811448 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. The Native Avifauna of the Mascarene Islands
- 1. An ecological history of the Mascarene Islands, with particular reference to extinctions and introductions of land vertebrates
- 2. The fossil record
- 3. Vocalisations of the endemic land-birds of the Mascarene Islands
- Part II. The Surviving Native Birds of Mauritius
- 4. The ecology of the small land-birds of Mauritius
- 5. The larger land-birds of Mauritius
- Part III. The Surviving Native Birds of RÃ(c)union and Rodrigues
- 6. the ecology of the surviving native land-birds of RÃ(c)union
- 7. Notes on the nesting of Procellariformes in RÃ(c)union
- 8. Observations on the surviving endemic birds of Rodrigues
- Part IV. Measurements and Weights
- 9. Measurements and weights of the surviving endemic birds of the Mascarenes and their eggs
- References
- Index
