Arkiv för zoologi (1909) (20148909829)

Title: Arkiv för zoologi
Identifier: arkivfrzoologi05kung (find matches)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademien
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Stockholm : P. A. Norstedt & soner
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library



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E. LÖNNBERG, BIRDS FROM TRANSBAICALIA AND MONGOLIA. 9 eastern spurs of the continuations of Altai with the southern ranges of the Kentei-mountains. Aquila nipalensis a7nurensis Emheriza aureola Parus atricapillus haicalensis » leucocephala In addition to these notes Mr. Bamberg has also com- municated the folloAving report about the landscape in general. »The natural conditions are like those of a genuine mountai- nous highland, extending all över Southern Trans-Baicalia and Northern Mongolia. The forests of the mountains of the northwestern parts consist mostly of Siberian mountain-
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Fig. 8. Sandsteppe with a sparse growth of grass and isolated pines at Urga. pine (Pinus cemhra), also called Siberian cedar, Siberian larch (Larix sihirica), Siberian spruce (Abies sihirica) and common pine (Pinus silvatica), also white birches and yellow-leaved acacias. Further south the birch and the »cedar» disappear and are entirely substituted by pines. From Chara river and southwards the mountains have no trees at all on their southern slopes, because the burning heat of the sun scorches everything during the summer. The rocks stånd there quite naked, as red, grey, sulphur-yellow, or greenish masses from which the rains and the storms have swept away sand and earth, merely