This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1943.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
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Published in Commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the University of California, Reprint 2020
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plates, maps, portrait
plates, maps, portrait
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978-0-520-34500-3 (9780520345003)
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Frontmatter --
Preface --
Contents --
Illustrations --
Call Notes of the Bush-Tit --
The Origin and Distribution of the Chestnut-backed Chickadee --
Composition of the Prince William Sound Avifauna; Discussion of Its Origin --
The Methods and Uses of a Research Museum --
The Colorado River as a Highway of Dispersal and Center of Differentiation of Species --
The Colorado River as a Hindrance to the Dispersal of Species --
Barriers to Distribution as Regards Birds and Mammals --
Conserve the Collector --
Field Tests of Theories Concerning Distributional Control --
The English Sparrow Has Arrived in Death Valley: An Experiment in Nature --
Sequestration Notes --
The Principle of Rapid Peering, in Birds --
The Museum Conscience --
The Role of the "Accidental" --
The Trend of Avian Populations in California --
The Burrowing Rodents of California as Agents in Soil Formation --
A Possible Function of the Whiteness of the Breast in Crevice-searching Birds --
Geography and Evolution --
Bird Netting as a Method in Ornithology --
A Conservationist's Creed as to Wild-Life Administration --
Geography and Evolution in the Pocket Gopher --
Tree Surgery and the Birds --
Presence and Absence of Animals --
Differentiation Areas --
Significance of Faunal Analysis for General Biology --
Linnets and Dandelions --
A Revised Life-Zone Map of California --
Up-hill Planters
