Birds of the Cape Region of Lower California (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Birds of the Cape Region of Lower California The depressed and exceedingly arid desert tract above mentioned evidently forms nearly as complete a barrier to the northward and south ward extension of plant and animal life as would a similar expanse of ocean. Indeed, there can be little doubt that the comparative isolation which its presence affords to the region lying to the southward has had very much to do with the striking faunal and żoral characteristics of the latter area. Another factor of perhaps almost equal potency is the comparatively humid climate of the Cape Region with the resultant (but also only comparative) luxuriance of its vegetation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.