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The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society December 1948

1948

The Mishini Hills lie at about the end of the main west-east Himalayan geosyncline and to the east again the main tectonic strike undergoeS a sharp bend towards the south into the Patkoi and Arakan Yornas. [...] THE BIRDS OF THE MISHMI HILLS demonstrated the separation of the two faunas as between the north and south faces of the mountains. [...] The sedentary lower-altitude birds of the Mishmi Hills separated by the gorges of the Brahmaputra from the Himalayas to the west and with relatively easy access to the upper Irrawady drainage to the east show a striking degree of relationship to the birds of the more western Himalayas of Sikkim and Bhutan. [...] `From the point of view of temperature the climate is thus definitely subtropical but the favourable moisture distribution and the complete absence of frost permits of the development of a forest indistinguishable from that of more southern latitudes. [...] Out of the corner of one's eye the gentle swaying of a fragment of bamboo-leaf caught in a spider's web or even just a gossamer strand dancing lightly in the breeze with a shaft of sunlight playing on it is apt to simulate the movement of a creeping bird and deceive the hunter momentarily.
agriculture environment
Pages
229
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120062
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii Salim Ali, S.B. Setna, H. Santapau view
The Birds of the Mishmi Hills
1-37 Salim Ali, S. Ripley view
Astanmarg
38-46 R.S.P. Bates view
Marine Fisheries of Kodinar in Kathiawar
47-61 T.V.R. Pillay view
More Butterflies of the Arakan Coast
62-74 A.M. Emmet view
Some Suggestions for Entomological Work in India
75-i D.G. Sevastopulo view
The Birds of the Punjab Salt Range (Pakistan)
93-117 H.W. Waite view
Sciaenids of the West Coast of Madras Province
118-124 P.K. Jacob view
Jungle Memories
125-145 E.G. Phythian-Adams view
A Note on the Food Habits of Three Kingeishers Occurring on Singapore Island
146-152 C.A. Gibson-Hill view
Some Observations on the Habits of Hippocampus Guttulatus Cuvier Reared in the Marine Biological Station West Hill
153-156 P.K. Jacob, A.D. Rajendran view
Trichogrammatoidea Nana Zehnt. (Hym. Chalcidoidea)—an Egg Parasite of the Sugarcane Borer Argyria Sticticraspis Hampson: A New Record from South India
157-158 M.C. Cherian, V. Margabandhu view
Natural History of the Gizzard-Shad Anodontostoma Chacunda (Ham. Buch.) and its Fishery on the West Coast of Madras Province
159-160 P.K. Jacob view
An Abnormal Form of Lac Cell and its Earliest Illustration
161-163 S. Mahdihassan view
Reviews
164-166 unknown view
Obituary
167-172 unknown view
Miscellaneous Notes
173-199 unknown view
Appeal International Depot of Microscopic Preparations of Cytology
200-200 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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