Avifauna Synonyms

Avifauna Sentence Examples

• In 1873 Elwes pointed out that the Himalayan avifauna extended into north-west China and established the Himalo-Chinese sub-region.

• A similarly mixed avifauna has been found in the mid-Miocene beds of various other parts of France, Germany and Italy.

• Here may be interpolated a short account of the very peculiar avifauna found in the Tertiary strata of Santa Cruz in Patagonia.

• The main affinities of the avifauna are, of course, Australian.

• Most interesting is the avifauna of the Sandwich islands; entirely devoid of Psittaci and of Coraciiformes, these islands show an extraordinary development of its peculiar family Drepanidae, which are probably of South or Central American descent.