The Migration of British Birds: Including Their Post-Glacial Emigrations as Traced by the Application of a New Law of Disperal Being a Contribution to the Study of Migration, Geographical Distribution, and Insular Faunas (Classic Reprint)

The Migration of British Birds: Including Their Post-Glacial Emigrations as Traced by the Application of a New Law of Disperal Being a Contribution to the Study of Migration, Geographical Distribution, and Insular Faunas (Classic Reprint)

Charles Dixon

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I have selected British Birds for this application, chieﬂy because our knowledge of their distribution, and of the past physical changes in the areas they inhabit, is not only extensive but fairly reliable. We are Often told that there is nothing new to be said about British Birds. I Offer the present volume as an answer to that hackneyed remark, and desire specially to call attention to our lack Of information on many important subjects connected with British ornithology, indicated here and there in the following pages, as a possible field of very fruitful research.

I am aware that much in the present volume is Opposed to the general views held by naturalists, and even to those expressed by myself in former works. For such portion of my work, a patient perusal and an impartial judgment are asked. I am quite prepared to meet with some amount of hostility from specialists whose views are not in harmony with this new Law of Dispersal. I have no fear for the results so far as Birds are concerned and I await with profound interest, and yet with every confidence, the results Of its application to other branches of biology, to which only specialists are competent to apply it. On its important bearing on the Distribution of Floras I have already dwelt at some length in my closing chapter.

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